一款全新的个人人工智能助手已经诞生。认识一下 Tab，该公司于周二宣布以 3 亿美元的估值正式结束保密状态。（该公司拒绝透露具体的融资细节。）Tab 是消费级人工智能助手新兴浪潮的一部分，类似于大受欢迎的 Instinct 和 Meta 的 Muse，它们承诺帮助人们处理日常生活中的任务，例如预订餐厅和预订旅行。
A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth at a $300 million valuation. (The company declined to share the exact funding details.) Tab is part of the rising trend of consumer AI assistants, like the breakout hit Instinct and Meta’s Muse, that promise to help people handle everyday tasks like making reservations and booking travel.
Brennan Erbz、Stafford Schlitt 和 Ammar Amdani 于今年早些时候开始研发 Tab。Amdani 在接受 TechCrunch 采访时表示，该产品的工作原理如下：用户只需在 iMessage 或 WhatsApp 上将他们需要帮助的事情发给 Tab 助手——无论是订购杂货还是为生日派对寻找礼物——Tab 就会将其变成现实。
Brennan Erbz, Stafford Schlitt, and Ammar Amdani started working on Tab earlier this year. Speaking to TechCrunch, Amdani said the product works like this: Users simply text the Tab assistant on iMessage or WhatsApp whatever they need help with — whether that’s ordering groceries or finding presents for a birthday party — and Tab makes it happen.
“你发信息给它就像发给一个你信任的人一样，它能为你卸下重担，”Amdani 接着说道。“账单、预订、你一直拖延的电话、记住你所爱的人。它拥有自己的电话号码、电脑和钱包，所以它不会告诉你如何去做这些事情。它会直接替你完成。”本轮融资的投资者包括 SV Angel、Valar Ventures 和 American Spirit. Amdani 表示，该公司目前主要通过口碑传播实现增长，并计划很快推出新产品。
“You text it like you’d text someone you trust and it takes the weight off,” Amdani continued. “The bills, the bookings, the calls you keep putting off, remembering the people you love. It has its own phone number, computer, and wallet, so it doesn’t tell you how to do those things. It does then.”Investors in the round include SV Angel, Valar Ventures, and American Spirit. Amdani said the company is growing mostly by word of mouth right now and plans to launch a new product soon.
他承认，这在某种程度上已经演变成了一场消费级人工智能竞赛。“每个人都在竞相让人工智能变得更有能力，”Amdani 说。
He acknowledged that this is now somewhat of a consumer AI race. “Everyone is racing to make AI more capable,” Amdani said.
“你的祖父母曾有家庭医生、银行家，也就是了解他们并照顾他们的人，”Amdani 说。“我们大多数人不再拥有这些了。”这就是个性化人工智能可以发挥作用的地方，但他表示，这场消费级人工智能竞赛的赢家不一定拥有最好的演示效果。
“Your grandparents had a family doctor, a banker, someone who knew them and looked out for them,” Amdani said. “Most of us don’t have that anymore.”That’s where personalized AI can come in, but he said that the winners of this consumer AI race won’t necessarily be the ones with the best demos.
“我们认为更难的问题是，你是否应该让它进入。”任何能够阅读电子邮件、拨打电话或购买物品的人工智能助手，“其价值取决于你对它的信任程度。”
“We think the harder question is whether you should let it in.”Any AI assistant that can read emails or make phone calls or purchase stuff is “only as good as your trust in it.”
这就是 Tab 围绕这一理念构建的原因，他说道。“你的数据绝不会用于训练人工智能。你的银行卡存放在一个 Tab 本身永远看不到的保险箱里。未经你的‘同意’，任何无法撤销的操作都不会发生。能力只是入场券。信任才是产品。”
It’s why Tab is built around that idea, he said. “Your data is never used to train AI. Your card lives in a vault Tab itself never sees. Nothing that can be undone happens without your ‘yes.’ Capability is table stakes. Trust is the product.”