[HN Gopher] Show HN: Amurex - An open source AI meeting copilot
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Show HN: Amurex - An open source AI meeting copilot
Author : jtswole
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-01-21 12:29 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| Bjartr wrote:
| As far as I can tell looking around the repo, An open source
| _frontend for a proprietary_ AI meeting copilot
|
| Did I miss something?
| niyogi wrote:
| i was wondering the same thing until i found the rest of it:
|
| https://github.com/thepersonalaicompany/amurex-backend
| Bjartr wrote:
| Thanks! I missed that.
| jtswole wrote:
| Everything is open source under AGPL licence. Maybe I can
| improve the README. What was harder to find for you?
| Bjartr wrote:
| The backend repo, but I'll chalk that up to not realizing I
| was only seeing pinned repos for your organization on github
| mobile.
| niyogi wrote:
| great start/work with this! i think clarification on the "it's
| free (for now)" mention on the website would be worth clearing
| up.
| jtswole wrote:
| Good shout. We will add a paid tier at some point, but unsure
| of the pricing for now. However, the self hosted version will
| be free forever and there will be a generous free tier too.
|
| Do you have any suggestions for the copy?
| thih9 wrote:
| > We will add a paid tier at some point, but unsure of the
| pricing for now. However, the self hosted version will be
| free forever and there will be a generous free tier too.
|
| What you wrote above is clear and helpful to me - and in any
| case I find it more useful than "it's free (for now)".
| amelius wrote:
| Maybe it is better to not use the word copilot in this context
| because MS has a trademark on it that they will have to defend.
| lolinder wrote:
| They have a pending trademark for Microsoft Copilot--do they
| also have an application for Copilot, unqualified?
|
| https://trademarks.justia.com/981/61/microsoft-98161972.html
|
| Edit: I found one for GitHub Copilot but no evidence of an
| unqualified trademark:
|
| https://trademarks.justia.com/974/60/github-97460083.html
| jtswole wrote:
| Thank you for suggestion. But in all honesty, f*ck Microsoft.
|
| Trying to trademark copilot is trying to trademark something
| like ASI or AGI. Co-pilot has been widely used in the aviation
| industry, and by definition means a person/companion who can
| help you navigate.
|
| So, I hope their trademark request gets rejected -\\_(tsu)_/-
| sitkack wrote:
| Microsoft doesn't get to own the world Copilot for everything.
| remram wrote:
| In the USA, being sued is 99% of the punishment, losing the
| suit does not really matter. Especially when faced with a big
| corp like this.
|
| You should think about what might get you in legal trouble,
| whether you might prevail is not relevant to your bottom line
| unless you are a Fortune 500 yourself.
| lolinder wrote:
| Unfortunately, by that logic you could conclude that
| competing with Microsoft at all would be out of question
| because in theory they could sue you into oblivion with a
| completely arbitrary lawsuit.
|
| The real world isn't quite that bad, so OP is correct to
| observe that Microsoft does not in fact have a trademark on
| Copilot, they have a pending trademark on Microsoft Copilot
| and GitHub Copilot. Given that their own trademarks (owned
| by different subsidiaries) include a second word to qualify
| them and would pose a substantial risk of confusion with
| each other if Copilot alone were treated as the mark, I
| think it's reasonable to argue that Microsoft couldn't
| claim a trademark on Copilot, unqualified, and is unlikely
| to even try to assert it.
| remram wrote:
| > you could conclude that competing with Microsoft at all
| would be out of question because in theory they could sue
| you into oblivion
|
| That is my conclusion yes.
| layer8 wrote:
| Not for everything, but for AI assistants they conceivably
| could.
| SparkyMcUnicorn wrote:
| While I was looking for how to swap out the backend to self-
| hosted, I noticed that analytics is hardcoded to true. Something
| to be aware of.
|
| Found this the other day on GitHub and have been meaning to try
| it out. Guess I'll be setting up the backend and modifying the
| hardcoded config in the extension.
| jtswole wrote:
| > While I was looking for how to swap out the backend to self-
| hosted, I noticed that analytics is hardcoded to true.
| Something to be aware of.
|
| Hostility is definitely not the intention, which is why we
| provide a way to turn it off in the config.
|
| But looks like we should provide a way to turn it off in a
| settings page somewhere too.
| arunc wrote:
| Or turn it off by default and the interested users can turn
| it on.
| sneak wrote:
| Co-opting computers you don't own to spy on the activities of
| the owners of those computers without their consent is
| unethical.
|
| The name we use for software that contains such functionality
| serving only its remote developer is "spyware".
| sandropuppo wrote:
| nice product, congrats! maybe I would just change the UVP in the
| repo a bit to understand better why the product is different,
| besides the open-source part of it.
| jtswole wrote:
| Thank you! We have the ability to do real time suggestions
| based on your context files like Cursor but for meetings. and
| also late meeting recaps.
|
| But thank you, need to update the readme now :D
| ashryan wrote:
| > 1. Install Amurex from the Chrome Web Store
|
| Wishing the project well, but this is where it stops for me
| unfortunately.
|
| Are there any similar tools that aren't browser dependent?
| jtswole wrote:
| > Are there any similar tools that aren't browser dependent?
|
| We might come up with something like this ;) What platform do
| you use for meetings? Or these some other issue for it being
| made for Chrome?
| ashryan wrote:
| I'd rather something like this either:
|
| 1. Work outside of the browser altogether (i.e., be built as
| an app for the OS), or 2. Integrate directly into the service
| it is targeting (i.e., G Suite add-ons, etc.)
|
| I may be in the minority.
| jtswole wrote:
| I understand that this is your preference. But I still
| don't understand why do you prefer that instead.
| cheema33 wrote:
| Same. I am pretty relaxed about privacy. But browser extensions
| are usually a hard pass for me. I grudgingly installed 2. An ad
| blocker and 1Password. It would take _a lot_ for me to install
| a third. I usually do not trust browser extensions.
| jtswole wrote:
| It is open source so you can inspect the code :D
| tiahura wrote:
| Great concept.
|
| Do this for Outlook and Teams.
| ahofmann wrote:
| Vote here for teams support:
| https://github.com/thepersonalaicompany/amurex/issues/17
| jtswole wrote:
| Doing! https://www.amurex.ai/early
|
| You can sign up here if you want to be informed when we launch
| it.
| bravura wrote:
| Can you please just do plain-old transcription with speaker
| diarization? That's the most important starting point for me.
|
| [edit: The summaries are usually bad and I always want to refer
| back to what was specifically said through LLM Q+A]
| jtswole wrote:
| We do it right now :D
|
| Just click on the download transcript
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