Mistlabs raises $26M to launch Ambi ambient AI on Apple devices
Mistlabs has exited beta for its ambient AI system, Ambi, on Apple devices, backed by a $26 million Pre-A funding round. The San Francisco-based company, led by CEO Peter Mo, positions Ambi as a proactive assistant that learns user preferences from conversations on iPhones, Apple Watches, and Macs. Unlike task-based AI, Ambi aims to act in real time, sometimes before users explicitly ask, by…
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- Mistlabs raised $26 million in a Pre-A round led by Luminous Ventures and Huaqin Technology.
- Ambi, an ambient AI for Apple devices, exited beta and learns user preferences from conversations.
- The company is building a standalone wearable to extend Ambi's context, launching later this year.
The system utilizes multiple agents to handle recurring jobs, such as fact-checking meeting discussions or drafting proposals while a user is still in the room. Mistlabs is also developing a standalone wearable to provide additional environmental context, which is expected to launch later this year. Users control what their agents can do through specific permission settings.
Luminous Ventures and Huaqin Technology led the funding round. Huaqin, a Shanghai-based smart device manufacturer, joins the investors as Mistlabs expands beyond software into hardware. Ambi is currently available on Macs and iOS 18-compatible devices, with audio storage disabled by default to address privacy concerns.
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Mistlabs, which develops Ambi, an ambient AI app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that learns about users from conversations, raised a $26M pre-Series A
siliconangle.com · 12 October 2026
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