It has been one week since the official launch of the Skywork AI Hardware Family, and our first batch has completely sold out.
We believe this is AI hardware that gives you your time and attention back, helping you step away from the screen. http://x.com/i/article/2083062757197545472
Introducing Skywork AI Hardware Family
Skywork Note officially launched for a week, and our first batch sold out completely. At the same time, we've decided to accelerate the rollout of the entire Skywork AI hardware family, from the recording clip, to the Recall pendant, to the TriRing AI ring.
This launch has far exceeded our expectations. When Skywork Note was first discussed internally, it was only interpreted as an accessory, an input peripheral for the Skywork super-agent. But through follow-up conversations with users who'd received their devices, we realized its value is far more than being a voice recorder. It gives people a chance to step away from the screen.
The AI hardware that gives your time and attention back to you
AI agents were supposed to boost our productivity. Yet over this past year, the time most people spend in front of a screen has probably only gone up.
Tasks get sent out one by one over IM. Requirements have to be typed out to the agent. Output has to be read and revised paragraph by paragraph. The more powerful the tool gets, the more we have to sit in front of it: translating what's in our brain into text, feeding it in, then reading the agent's output back into our brain.
And so a very tangled thing happens: we give up living, in exchange for something that was supposed to help us live better. Meetings still happen as usual, clients are still met as usual, clinic visits still run as usual, but these real, lived moments increasingly feel like "material to be collected": you're experiencing something while a part of you is already keeping a mental note, "I'll need to type this up later." You're physically present, but half your attention has already split off to that screen you haven't even opened yet.
The moments that really set the tone for your work all happen outside the screen
Over the past year, agents have grown extremely capable: they can read documents, browse the web, take on an entire codebase, and even join group chats on WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, etc. But all of these capabilities happen within the screen.
And your real context has never just been the searching, typing, and interacting that happens on a screen, it also includes how you connect with the real physical world. Many of the moments that set the tone in work happen outside the screen, beyond the microphone: the half-sentence a client lets slip in the meeting room, the version of the proposal that gets rejected in review, the three minutes a patient spends describing symptoms in the clinic, the "let's think about this some more" said in the hallway as everyone's leaving.
Nobody records these words, so they never enter any system. If you want your agent to make use of them today, there's only one clumsy way: sit back down at your computer after the meeting and type them out from memory. That's more screen time again, and a discounted version of it at that.
Sensing: let the world walk itself into the agent, instead of you typing it in
One core piece of AI hardware is still sensing, it's just pointed in a different direction. It no longer requires you to translate reality into text and carry it onto the screen. Instead, it lets the physical world be sensed and picked up on its own.
This is exactly the loop Skywork Note wants to close, the loop that exists outside the screen. You go about your meetings and client visits as usual, and the device quietly records whatever needs recording, so you don't have to pull out your phone, don't have to type, and don't have to split your attention on-site playing "note-taker." By the time you walk out of the meeting room, a product review has already become a structured PRD plus a deck, a user interview has already become a finished write-up plus an insight report, a clinic conversation has already become a proper medical record.
Because what's behind it isn't just a transcription model, it's the full capability of the Skywork super-agent: documents, decks, spreadsheets, web pages, podcasts, videos, images, the agent has access to all of it from that one recording. And your recordings won't scatter into a pile of disconnected audio clips either, you can just ask, "What did that client actually say about pricing last month?" and get an answer that spans meetings and files, traceable back to the original clip.
In other words, the only thing you need to do on-site is be fully present on-site. The work you'd otherwise have to make up for in front of a screen afterward has been taken off your hands.
Maybe that's exactly why the first batch sold out, too many people wanted to step away from the screen.
Following the same thinking, Note's upgraded version, Skywork Mate, is launching soon. It goes on to solve the second half of the problem: after you're done recording, do you still need to go back to the screen.
Connect to Wi-Fi, record, and walk away. You don't need to export, you don't need to click "organize." By the time you walk into your next meeting room, this meeting has already turned into a report sitting in your inbox. Plug it into your computer via Type-C, and it instantly becomes an 8-meter conference mic, picking up clearly even what's said in the back row, saving you the cost of a thousand-dollar omnidirectional mic. The 6nm AI audio chip inside uses a neural network to filter out 500-plus types of environmental noise, and separates "what you said" from "what they said" 1:1 in real time at the hardware level, instead of guessing voiceprints afterward with software.
Compared to a regular recording pen, Skywork Mate truly makes sensing effortless.
Until you forget the hardware is even there
For a device to help you "return to life," it first has to make itself invisible. The smaller and closer to the body it is, the less you're distracted by "should I take it out or not," and the less a recording pen pulled out of a pocket interrupts the moment.
So looking ahead, the direction of this line is to keep letting the device fade further into the invisible. Skywork will keep rolling out a whole family of hardware.
Skywork Recall, is only 17.4 grams, smaller than a lipstick, and can be clipped to a collar, fastened to a wrist, or hung around the neck. It has built-in VAD voice detection, so it only starts recording when someone is speaking, and automatically goes to sleep once things go quiet, cutting out useless silence right at the source, so it can be worn all day, for several days in a row. The small psychological barrier between "recording while wearing it" and "recording while holding it" is exactly what it's meant to remove. And once it's done recording, you don't need to sort anything either: the agent decides on its own what each piece is, syncing meeting minutes to IM, adding to-dos to your calendar, and saving passing thoughts as notes.
Skywork TriRing, is only 4 to 6 grams, and is currently the furthest point of this line. It combines ceramic and titanium alloy, the first time this has been done in a ring. AI rings on the market that focus on recording have almost all been single-microphone so far, unable to pick up anything clearly a meter away, and tend to quietly disappear after a brief moment of buzz. TriRing uses the industry's first dual-microphone noise-cancellation algorithm, aiming to bring ring recording back from being just a concept to something genuinely usable. To record something with it, all it takes is a double tap, the rest is left for the agent to figure out.
What makes the ring most special is that it sits right against your skin. Beyond recording what you've said, it can also collect your health data in real time: monitoring heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, and sleep around the clock. This is exactly the most fundamental layer of "returning to life": life isn't only what you say, it's also whether you're sleeping well and whether your body can keep up.
When these two kinds of data land in the same agent, what it gives you is no longer two unrelated reports, but possibly something like this:
"You got less than 40 minutes of deep sleep last night, and you already have three meetings back to back this morning. Want to move that 3pm review to tomorrow?"
That sentence is something a health-only device could never work out, and neither could a recording-only device. It requires an agent that understands both what you've said and the state of your body, and this only holds true once sensing is truly placed right on you.
Let AI focus on the screen, and you on living
The promise this generation of AI should really be delivering on isn't helping you type faster, it's letting you type a little less, and live a little more.
You don't need to change how you work for the sake of the agent, and you certainly don't need to run every real experience through the keyboard. The only difference is this: the words that used to scatter the moment they were spoken, the things that used to be forgotten the moment they were lived, will from now on stay behind on their own, and turn into something usable. All you need to do is go to your meetings, meet people, go out, and live.
The Skywork AI pendant Recall and AI ring TriRing will be launching soon.