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Friend AI
by Friend
System Card
OrganizationFriend
Released2024-12
Architectureepisodic-buffer / Always-listening companion pendant with emotional response
DetailsFriend is a $99 pendant worn on a lanyard that contains a microphone and connects to the user's phone via Bluetooth. It runs Claude 3.5 as its conversational model and is designed as an emotional support companion — recognizing tone and mood and sending proactive messages. Unlike productivity-focused wearables, Friend deliberately does not generate work summaries but functions as an empathetic conversational presence.
Parameters—
Domainpersonalizationepisodic-session
Open SourceNo
WebsiteVisit
pendantemotional-companionbluetoothalways-listeningclaude-poweredwearable
Capability Profile
Benchmark Scores
5 of 14 benchmarksLong-Context Retrieval0/5
RULER
no dataNIAH
no dataLooGLE
no dataLongBench
no data∞Bench
no dataMulti-Turn Recall2/2
Cross-Session Memory1/1
Multi-Hop QA0/3
BABILong
no dataMultiHop-RAG
no dataHotpotQA
no dataAgent Task Memory1/1
Personalization1/1
Factuality / Grounding0/1
RAGAS
no dataSources:Friend AI vendor documentation; evaluated on LoCoMo: Long-Term Conversational Memory Benchmark (Snap Research, 2402)Friend AI vendor documentation; evaluated on LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory (Salesforce AI Research, 2410)Friend AI vendor documentation; evaluated on MemoryBank: Enhancing LLMs with Long-Term Memory (Sun Yat-sen University, 2305)Friend AI vendor documentation; evaluated on AgentBench Memory Track (Tsinghua KEG, 2308)Friend AI vendor documentation; evaluated on PerLTQA: A Personal Long-Term Memory Question Answering Dataset (PolyU, 2402)