Snap launches Specs Intelligence AI assistant with work account connections for iOS and Mac

Snap has launched Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant that the company describes as an “anticipatory AI service” – a service that anticipates user needs instead of waiting for a query. The assistant is being introduced alongside Specs, the first consumer AR glasses from Snap. It is available today on iOS as a preview, and the company has opened a waiting list for the “full early-access experience” on Mac; Snap has not officially disclosed how the preview differs from the full version.

According to Snap, Specs Intelligence builds an understanding of the goals, priorities, relationships and routines of the user based on connected apps and tools, carrying this context across devices and deepening it over time. The assistant is supposed to proactively get in touch – for example, highlighting decisions and questions to discuss before a meeting, or compiling flight, hotel and dinner information before a trip while also flagging a work deadline that falls during the trip. On the Specs AR glasses, it can display personal content directly in the field of view, for example during a morning summary of the day. According to the app demo, it can connect to tools such as Gmail and Slack.

Snap spokesperson Cassie Bumgarner said that Specs Intelligence uses a “proprietary combination of open-source models hosted in the US along with local LLMs” and that the company continually adjusts this combination of models. According to Snap, the assistant does not have access to the personal content of the user, and data from connected accounts is not supposed to be used to train or fine-tune AI models, or to target personalized advertising. The source does not independently verify these claims and notes that similar assistants with broad access to data (e.g. Meta Muse or Google Gemini Spark) raise similar privacy concerns among users.