Genspark's 'AI Workspace 6.0' Adds a Perpetual Memory and Its First Hardware

Genspark's 'AI Workspace 6.0' Adds a Perpetual Memory and Its First Hardware

For two years, the pitch behind the AI agent boom has run into the same wall: the agent forgets. You explain who you are, paste the same context, and start over every session. On July 21, in Tokyo, Genspark said it had built the fix, and bundled it with a physical device meant to follow you off the screen and into the room.

The Palo Alto startup unveiled Genspark AI Workspace 6.0, its most ambitious release to date and one it first previewed at the New York Stock Exchange. The centerpiece is SecondBrain, a cloud-based memory layer that perpetually stores a user's work-related information, and SecondBrain Note, Genspark's first hardware product, a card-thin recorder that captures real-world conversations and pipes them into that memory automatically.

"Today, using AI is like collaborating with a genius who has a goldfish memory," said Eric Jing, co-founder and CEO of Genspark. "With Genspark AI Workspace 6.0, we're giving knowledge workers a second brain that never forgets, an agentic engine that builds for them, and a place where people and agents finally work side by side. When you combine full context with smarter agents, work can begin to do itself."

What SecondBrain does

SecondBrain is pitched as a horizontal, persistent memory layer for agents. Rather than living inside a single chatbot session, it compiles a user's emails, meeting notes, calls, documents, and systems of record such as CRMs into one continuously updated context that both the human and the agents can read, use, and edit. The promise is that an agent stops feeling like a tool you query and starts behaving like a colleague who already knows the history of a project.

The more novel piece is the hardware. SecondBrain Note is a card-sized voice recorder built for the conversations that happen away from a keyboard, in meetings, hallways, and phone calls. Everything it captures syncs into SecondBrain as searchable, structured, user-owned memory that can be reviewed, edited, downloaded, or deleted. A built-in light signals whenever recording is active, and Genspark says data is encrypted and covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, a nod to the obvious privacy anxieties of an always-listening device. The device is available now for $199, with a $179 introductory price. Afterward, the company says, a user can simply text Genspark "build me slides from that conversation," and the context is already there.

Workspace 6.0 also folds in GenMail, an agentic email client that builds an "email brain" from thousands of a user's messages to draft replies in their voice; GenTeam, a shared-memory chat where people and AI agents work in the same channels; and new tools called AI Design and AgentBase for generating visuals and building software like CRMs and dashboards from a prompt.

The numbers behind the launch

The release builds on one of the steepest growth curves in AI. Genspark says it reached $250 million in annualized run rate within 12 months of launching and now serves more than 7,000 business clients. The company is backed by $645 million in total funding at a $2.6 billion valuation, up from $1.6 billion in March, after a $100 million Series B extension in June. Its backers include Emergence Capital Partners, LG, SBI, UpHonest, and Temasek's Pavilion Capital, and it was founded by veterans of Microsoft, Google, Meta, YouTube, and Pinterest. Alongside the Tokyo debut, Genspark signaled its ambitions in Japan with a reported $100 million investment plan for the market over three years.

Why it matters

Two of the hottest, and hardest, bets in AI collide in this launch. The first is agent memory. Persistent context is widely seen as the missing ingredient that separates a clever demo from an agent that can actually carry a multi-day project. By making memory a horizontal layer that spans email, meetings, and CRMs rather than a feature buried in one app, Genspark is staking out the same territory OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are all racing toward, and doing it as a fast-moving startup rather than a frontier lab.

The second bet is far riskier: consumer AI hardware. The recent history here is a graveyard. Humane's $699 AI Pin was panned on arrival in 2024 and the company was effectively wound down and sold to HP in 2025. Rabbit's $199 R1 launched to brutal reviews the same year. Even OpenAI's heavily hyped device with Jony Ive's io team has yet to ship. Genspark's edge, if it has one, is that SecondBrain Note is not trying to replace the smartphone. It is a cheap, single-purpose accessory whose entire value proposition is feeding a software layer people may already use, a far more modest ask than "carry a new gadget instead of your phone."

What to watch

The open questions are the ones that sank the last wave of AI hardware. Does an always-on recorder clear the privacy and social-etiquette bar in real meetings, not just in a keynote demo? Will SecondBrain's memory prove accurate and trustworthy enough that knowledge workers actually delegate real work to it, or will hallucinated "memories" erode confidence fast? And can Genspark ship physical devices at scale, the exact point where Humane and others stumbled? With everything offered on a free plan and a $2.6 billion valuation to defend, the company has bet that the winner of the agent era will be whoever owns the context, not whoever trains the biggest model. The next few quarters will show whether the room agrees.