The news: Plumerai, a startup backed by Nest founder Tony Fadell, is integrating “tiny AI” language models with lower-cost AI chips, aimed at outdoor security cameras. It’s the latest expansion of AI software and hardware into new consumer electronics markets.

Smarter homes run their own AI: Plumeria is touting privacy, cost-efficiency, and less reliance on the cloud infrastructure, which are limitations of existing systems. It has the potential to increase AI use in smart home products, per TechCrunch.

Plumerai’s tiny AI uses smaller models than platforms like ChatGPT, which rely on massive amounts of data and need too much computing power to run on small devices. Large models also risk generating inaccurate results.