Anker’s new MindBase is an AI-powered brain for your smart home

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Anker is launching the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its security cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, which the company says can process your footage without it ever leaving your home. It’s also announcing a handful of other smart home security products at the IFA tech show in Berlin this week, including the TrackLight Cam S1, the S4 video doorbell, and a window camera.

Pitched as the “central brain for the home,” the MindBase is not just for Eufy security cameras; Anker is positioning it as a whole-home connectivity solution with on-device compute and local storage. Security is the first use case, but the company plans to add an energy agent for your home’s power, a clean agent for your robot vacuums, and more. Anker hasn’t revealed the price or release date yet.

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