Shawn Shen believes that AI might want to bear in mind what it sees so as to succeed within the bodily world. Shen’s firm Memories.ai is utilizing Nvidia AI instruments to construct the infrastructure for wearables and robotics to have the ability to bear in mind and recall visible recollections.
Recollections.ai introduced a collaboration with semiconductor big Nvidia at its GTC convention on Monday. Via this partnership, Recollections.ai makes use of Nvidia’s Cosmos Cause 2, a reasoning imaginative and prescient language mannequin, and Nvidia Metropolis, an software for video search and summarization, to proceed to develop its visible reminiscence expertise.
Shen (pictured above left) advised TechCrunch that he and his co-founder and CTO Ben Zhou (pictured above proper), bought the concept for the corporate whereas constructing the AI system behind Meta’s RayBan glasses. Constructing the AI glasses bought them enthusiastic about how folks would really use the tech in actual life if customers couldn’t recall the video knowledge they had been recording.
They appeared round to see if they might discover anybody already constructing that kind of visible reminiscence resolution for AI. After they couldn’t, they determined to spin out of Meta and construct it themselves.
“AI is already doing rather well within the digital world, what concerning the bodily world?” Shen stated. “AI wearables, robotics want recollections as effectively. … Finally, you want AI to have visible recollections. We imagine in that future.”
The flexibility for AI methods to recollect, usually, is a comparatively new. OpenAI updated ChatGPT to start to remember past chats in 2024 and fine-tuned that feature in 2025. Elon Musk’s xAI and Google Gemini have launched their very own reminiscence instruments too up to now two years.
However these developments have largely targeted on text-based reminiscence, Shen stated. Textual content-based reminiscence is far more structured and simpler to index however aren’t as useful for bodily AI purposes that largely work together with the world by sight and visuals.
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Recollections.ai was launched in 2024 and has raised $16 million to date, by an $8 million seed spherical in July 2025 and an $8 million extension. The spherical was led by Susa Ventures and included Seedcamp, Fusion Fund and Crane Enterprise Companions, amongst others.
Shen stated efficiently constructing this visible reminiscence layer required two issues: constructing the infrastructure wanted to embed and index movies into a knowledge format that may be saved and recalled, and capturing the info wanted to coach the mannequin to just do that.
The corporate launched its large visual memory model (LVMM) in July 2025. Shen stated it could possibly be in comparison with a smaller model of Gemini Embedding 2, a multimodal indexing and retrieving mannequin, that was launched earlier this month.
For knowledge assortment, the corporate created LUCI, a {hardware} machine worn by the corporate’s “knowledge collectors” that data video used to coach the mannequin. Shen stated they don’t plan to turn out to be a {hardware} firm, nor promote these units, however, quite, that they constructed their very own as a result of they weren’t happy with off-the-shelf video recorders that targeted on high-definition and battery-eating video codecs.
The corporate launched the second era of this LVMM and signed a partnership with Qualcomm to run on Qualcomm’s processors beginning later this yr.
Recollections.ai can be working with among the massive wearable corporations already, Shen stated, however declined to reveal which of them. Regardless of some demand now, Shen sees even greater alternatives in wearables and robotics but to return.
“By way of commercialization, we’re extra targeted on the mannequin and the infrastructure, as a result of finally we expect the wearables and robotics market will come, however it’s most likely simply not now,” Shen stated.
