Pure voice Personal Agent is here! Perhaps this is the Siri in Steve Jobs' mind

What happened: A product called Orilo, a voice-first personal agent, has been released. It is from a team led by Jiao Ke, co-founder of Baichuan Intelligence, and follows the team's earlier AI radio product. Key numbers: Orilo reopens 1.08 seconds after a user Why it matters: The article argues most personal agents suffer from low usage frequency, high interaction friction, and high running costs, and presents voice-first design as the way past those limits. It notes the tradeoff: the two-layer architecture sacrifices robustness, and the product currently supports only English.

A product called Orilo, a voice-first personal agent, has been released. It is from a team led by Jiao Ke, co-founder of Baichuan Intelligence, and follows the team's earlier AI radio product.

The article argues most personal agents suffer from low usage frequency, high interaction friction, and high running costs, and presents voice-first design as the way past those limits. It notes the tradeoff: the two-layer architecture sacrifices robustness, and the product currently supports only English.