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Brilliant Labs

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Brilliant Labs is a consumer technology company developing AI-powered wearable devices and smart glasses for augmented reality applications.

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Founded
2019
HQ
San Francisco, California, USA
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Brilliant Labs: 2 models, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $9.0M raised. 5 sources back the record.

CategoryWearable AI

Funding

$9.0M

Models

2

Deployments

2

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Regional ecosystem

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Key facts

Products

Frame (2024, open-source dev AI glasses) + Halo (2025 consumer); Noa multimodal assistant.

Differentiator

Open-source hardware + software (GitHub); Liquid AI on-device vision-language on Halo (claimed).

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CEO

Bobak Tavangar

Product

Open-source AI-powered AR glasses

Fundingsee investors →

3M seed (Oculus, Siri, Pebble founders)

Data & sources

Web sources

5

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Models (2)

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Current platform

Brilliant Labs Frame

The Brilliant Labs Frame is open-source AI glasses that process AI workloads on-device, transmitting to servers only under encryption when more compute is needed. Brilliant Labs states no biometric identifiers are created or stored, it does not currently sell or share personal information, and third-party AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity are contractually barred from training on user data. Sold at $349.

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Current platform

Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)

Brilliant Labs (founded 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, formerly of Apple, with co-founders Raj Nakarja and Benjamin Heald, and operations in Singapore; about $6M raised from angels including Brendan Iribe, Adam Cheyer, Eric Migicovsky, and Nirav Patel) makes open-source AI smart glasses. Its first product, the Frame, has been on sale since early 2024 as a 39-gram developer-oriented device with a microOLED prism display, a nose-bridge camera, and the Noa multimodal assistant that routes to cloud models; its newer consumer-oriented Halo, announced July 31, 2025, is a roughly 40-gram all-day design with a color microOLED peripheral display, camera, microphone, bone-conduction speakers, Noa with long-term Narrative memory and a Vibe Mode for building apps in natural language, and a licensed Liquid AI vision-language model, offered at pre-order for $299. Both are open-source, with design files and code on GitHub, which is the company's most distinctive and verifiable differentiator. This entity sits in the wearable form factor as a deliberate axis-extension to AI-hardware devices rather than acting robots. The registry records it at commercial maturity on the strength of the shipping, widely reviewed Frame, while noting that Halo's on-device Liquid AI inference performance and confirmation of delivered units are claimed but not independently verified.

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Brilliant Labs, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What is Brilliant Labs?
Brilliant Labs is an AI glasses company operating the open-source / developer-accessible angle in the AI wearables cohort. Product lines include Frame (the original developer-accessible AI glasses) and Halo (subsequent product line). AI substance: moderate via open-source SDK and Liquid AI integrations per Agent A's Wave 2 audit framing. Maturity: commercial active. Per DEPLOY's framework, Brilliant Labs represents the open-source / developer-accessible angle distinct from closed-ecosystem Meta and Humane stacks. Useful for showing the AI wearables category includes developer-tier products with different end-user assumptions. Audit-first on current Frame pricing + Halo launch state; the lineup has evolved since launch.Read the full explainer →
What is the best AI wearable in 2026?
There is no single best AI wearable in 2026; the right pick depends on use case, AI substance tier, and maturity. Per DEPLOY's framework: for visual assistance + genuine cloud AI shipping at consumer-deployment scale, Meta Ray-Ban anchors the Western verified-commercial position and Rokid anchors the non-Western. For audio-first capture and recall, Plaud (capture) and Friend (ambient) operate genuine cloud AI at commercial active. For developer-accessible / open-source orientation, Brilliant Labs Frame + Halo. For pilot-stage multi-purpose with marketing-vs-shipped gap, Rabbit r1. For commercial-discontinued failure context, Humane AI Pin. Trade-press 'best of' listicles collapse the axes; the right pick differs by buyer.Read the full explainer →
What are the different types of wearable AI?
Wearable AI sorts along two intersecting axes per DEPLOY's framework. Form factor: smart glasses with display (Brilliant Labs Frame variants), smart glasses without display (Meta Ray-Ban base variants; Rokid; audio-first), audio-only smart glasses (Solos AirGo Vision), pendant recorders (Humane AI Pin; Friend Pendant; Plaud NotePin variants), and adjacent uncovered sub-categories (smart rings / smart watches / AI earbuds). AI substance tier: genuine cloud AI / moderate open-source / partner-mediated / veneer per Agent A's spectrum. Cross-referencing the axes produces the cohort's editorial typology; smart rings, smart watches, and AI earbuds are gaps in DEPLOY's current registry surfaced honestly as editorial signal.Read the full explainer →
What does wearable AI do?
Wearable AI does six things at different verification depths per DEPLOY's framework: (1) visual Q&A on what the camera sees (Meta Ray-Ban Look-and-Ask; Rokid; Brilliant Labs; Solos GPT-4o); (2) live translation across languages (Meta + Rokid with offline mode + Solos); (3) capture & summarize voice + transcripts (Plaud; Friend; Bee; Omi pending registry); (4) ambient recall of conversations + context (Bee; Friend; Omi pending registry); (5) smartphone replacement promised but verified-as-failed (Humane discontinued; Rabbit r1 marketing-vs-shipped gap); (6) health monitoring (uncovered in current DEPLOY cohort; Oura, Apple Watch, Fitbit are canonical contenders DEPLOY hasn't yet registered). The canonical wearable AI question conflates 'what is marketed' with 'what is verified-shipped'; DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed framework fixes the conflation.Read the full explainer →

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Brilliant Labs.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Brilliant Labs in third-party press

Brilliant Labs Halo: Open-Source AI Glasses for Curious Minds. - quasa.io

Jun 13, 2026

Why Brilliant Labs’ Halo may be the Definitive Open-Source AI Leap - microwire.info

May 26, 2026

Brilliant Lab’s $349 Halo smart glasses handle all AI workloads on-device and it’s a huge privacy win - Digital Trends

Mar 3, 2026

Peers

35 peers across 1 segment. Every Brilliant Labs competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

wearable(35)

32 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 2595.3892239124602) · leader Oculus VR at 4361%