iFlytek introduces 40g AI glasses featuring the GlassClaw AI agent and enhanced noise recognition technology.

      On Thursday, iFlytek introduced its new AI smart glasses during the BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macau, themed Communication Without Boundaries, the World Before Your Eyes, marking the company's latest endeavor in AI-driven devices.

      At the launch, Lin Huijie, General Manager of iFlytek’s Wearable Devices Business Department, expressed the company’s goal for the product to address a persistent industry question: the significance of smart glasses.

      Lin reflected on the evolution of smart glasses over the last decade. He noted that early designs aimed at a futuristic aesthetic were followed by attempts to replicate smartphone functionalities in eyewear, yet the category has struggled to gain widespread acceptance. According to Lin, many products resembled head-mounted smartphones or limited accessory devices rather than offering truly standalone and frequently used applications.

      With significant advancements in AI technologies, especially in multimodal large models, iFlytek believes smart glasses have now reached a new opportunity phase. Unlike smartphones, glasses provide a more intuitive human interface, allowing for prolonged wear while continuously capturing the user's visual, auditory, and communicative experiences. iFlytek promotes its AI glasses as a powerful AI assistant before users' eyes, effectively serving as a second brain.

      The newly released iFlytek AI glasses emphasize four key areas: translation, interaction, office productivity, and comfort. They support real-time translation for 122 languages, accents, and dialects, enabling face-to-face translation, phone call translation, online meeting interpretation, and AR visual translation. Moreover, the glasses can recognize and translate text from menus, road signs, and presentation materials in real time.

      The event also showcased iFlytek’s proprietary lip-motion recognition multimodal noise reduction system. By integrating a 5+1 microphone array, cameras, and bone-conduction technology, the AI glasses can identify a speaker based on the user’s line of sight and the speaker’s lip movements, providing a “hear who you look at” experience. This feature is particularly designed for crowded environments such as exhibitions, high-speed rail stations, and airports, addressing the challenges of speech recognition amid multiple speakers.

      In addition to translation, iFlytek demonstrated the AI glasses' functionality in business contexts. The glasses include an AI agent named GlassClaw, which facilitates meeting transcription, information organization, email dispatching, and execution of complex workflows. Demonstrating this, Lin illustrated how users can issue voice commands for the AI to autonomously generate partnership proposals, arrange travel itineraries, and send emails, all without needing a smartphone or computer.

      The glasses also include an intelligent teleprompter that adjusts scrolling speed based on the user's speaking pace, enhancing the delivery of speeches, interviews, and presentations.

      Weighing around 40 grams—about 20% lighter than similar products—the new iFlytek AI glasses are crafted from an aerospace-grade magnesium-aluminum alloy frame, feature a resin waveguide display, and contain a customized micro-optical module. The device has passed a 1.7-meter drop test and offers up to eight hours of battery life with various charging options, and the design includes ergonomic adjustments suited for Asian facial structures to enhance long-term comfort.

      In conjunction with the launch, iFlytek organized an AI glasses ecosystem partner forum with Sunny Optical, Wanxin Optical, and Conant Optics, where industry leaders discussed crucial standards such as weight, comfort, and intelligence.

      The iFlytek AI glasses are priced at 4,299 yuan ($635) and will be available for presale starting June 15. As AI technologies progress, iFlytek aims to elevate smart glasses from mere tech gadgets to essential productivity tools and position them as a fundamental entry point for the next wave of AI-powered devices.

      Jessie Wu is a tech journalist based in Shanghai, covering consumer electronics, semiconductors, and the gaming industry for TechNode. She can be reached via email at jessie.wu@technode.com.