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  "id": 5424051,
  "title": "Forget Alexa — UGreen wants you to use its new local AI assistant to control your smart home",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/forget-alexa-ugreen-wants-you-to-use-its-new-local-ai-assistant-to",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-03T22:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Guide",
    "slug": "tom-s-guide",
    "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/home/smart-home/forget-alexa-and-google-ugreen-wants-you-to-use-its-new-local-ai-assistant-to-control-your-smart-home"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Following the launch of its new smart home ecosystem, UGreen has introduced a local AI assistant called Uliya, aimed at providing users with more control over their smart home devices and personal data. The system is anchored by a central hub called the UGreen HomeAgent, available in three versions: HA100, HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100. These versions vary in processor capabilities, memory, and storage, ranging from $899 to $19,999, with the highest-priced MA100 model offering the most advanced AI features.\n\nThe HomeAgent acts as a traditional NAS drive, providing storage for security camera footage, photos, and videos from users' phones. It can analyze this data to identify people, vehicles, pets, and packages, as well as detect unusual activity and summarize events. Users can interact with the AI through the company's smart speaker, \"Uliya,\" which costs $99 or $69 when preordered. The speaker resembles the Amazon Echo Show 5 in size and functionality.\n\nThe company's three security cameras—two outdoor and one indoor—capture video locally on the HomeAgent hub, offering features such as pan/tilt functionality, night vision, and object recognition. Additionally, UGreen has developed a digital photo frame, the UGreen Gallery, featuring a 13.3-inch eInk display and a 512GB microSD card slot for expanded photo storage.\n\nBy processing data locally, UGreen's smart home system ensures user privacy by keeping personal information offline and avoiding the risk of cloud-based AI compromising users' data.",
  "summary": "UGreen is introducing a new local AI device that will not only serve as backup for all your photos and videos, but act as a central hub for all your smart home devices. But, it won't come cheap.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "9to5Google",
        "title": "Ugreen’s ‘HomeAgent’ is a local AI smart home ecosystem for its new line of cameras, more",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ugreens-homeagent-is-a-local-ai-smart-home-ecosystem-for-its-new-line",
        "published": "2026-09-03T22:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "UGREEN's new smart home platform keeps your AI and storage local, no cloud required",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ugreens-new-smart-home-platform-keeps-your-ai-and-storage-local-no",
        "published": "2026-09-03T22:00:15.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Android Authority",
        "title": "UGREEN’s smart home hubs put an AI data center in your kitchen to protect your privacy",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ugreens-smart-home-hubs-put-an-ai-data-center-in-your-kitchen-to",
        "published": "2026-09-03T22:00:34.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}