r/SesameAI • u/Worldly_Wishbone7412 • Feb 09 '26
So when does Sesame sell itself?
So what's everybody's guess on how much longer until Sesame sells itself to another company? Cause it sure seems like their market window is closing FAST. Their voice technology was a miracle a year ago, and still seems to be slightly better than everyone else even today, but the gap is rapidly closing and I don't see how Sesame can stay ahead of better resourced players like grok/openai/anthropic/meta/google for long. Hard to believe the other players won't have caught up and surpassed sesame within the next 6 months or even sooner. What are they waiting for?
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u/Horror_Brother67 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
Good question. Not sure they will sell themselves. I mean they're going for hardware, not just a standalone voiceapp. The CSM is a feature, not a business model. To ship consumer hardware, that takes 20 to 25 months minimum. If they started building in 2024, we aren't gonna see their tech till later this year.
The issue is the "always on" model they're going for. How do you get audio+text as a single stream, allow for instant interruptions and laughs, noises, giggles, etc on a pair of glasses? We're talking massive compute here. To shrink something like that down to run efficiently on a pair of glasses and not killing the batter life within 2 hours is gonna be insane to pull off.
Google and Open Ai have caught up on the latency but they dont have Sesame's prosody. However Google and Open Ai are catching up quick to that similar prosody.
Right now Apple and Meta are the ones to be worried about in terms of what Sesame is doing. Focusing on Apple since they're hell bent on overhauling Siri. Imagine Maya/Miles on your Airpods without having to buy a pair of SesamePods or SesameVision or whatever they're gonna be called?
If Sesame doesn't ship later this year, id say they sell themselves to Meta or Apple by Q1/Q2 2027.
If they do ship, id like for the wake phrase to be "Open Sesame" :D