It has been a long time coming. Humane has kept its paintings more or less under wraps since 2018, the year of its founding, without revealing any products and still calling dozens of former Apple painters guilty of the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard, elements of Apple’s commercial design and Apple’s infrastructure such as iCloud, Apple Payment and Home.
It turns out that Humane’s product is a wearable device with a projected screen and AI-powered features. Chaudhri did a live demonstration of the device at a TED talk in April, but a press release provides more details.
“The [AI Pin is a] portable, connected, intelligent device that uses a diversity of sensors that enable contextual and environmental computational interactions,” he said. “The Ai Pin is a type of standalone device with a software platform that leverages the strength of Ai to enable cutting-edge non-public computing experiences. “
By removing marketing jargon, the Ai Pin will be able, assuming Humane’s claims hold, to carry out many responsibilities that a smartphone can carry out, but with fewer gestures and voice commands needed. Activated with a single touch, the Ai Pin, designed to clip into a chest pocket, can deliver a summary of emails and calendar invitations, translate between languages, and answer and make phone calls.
Thanks to a camera and PC vision software, the Ai Pin can also recognize items around it, such as food nutrition labels. And an integrated allocator and intensity sensor, you can assign an interactive interface to nearby surfaces, such as the palm of your hand. a hand or the surface of a table.
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“Our Ai Pin gives other people the opportunity to take AI with them and usher in a new era of non-public cellular computing that is transparent, screenless and sensing,” Chaudhri and Bongiorno said in a statement.
Humane also revealed that it is working with Qualcomm to expand Ai Pin’s internal hardware. An unnamed chip from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series will force the laptop; Human promises that there will be more data later in the year leading up to the device’s launch.
“Humane’s Ai Pin will deliver an incredible AI experience,” said Ziad Asghar, senior vice president of product management at Qualcomm, in the release: “With the advent of generative AI, Humane’s Ai Pin and user experience are utilizing some of the key strengths of on-device AI and using real-time contextual data to provide the user with exciting and personalized AI use cases. “
Humane has previously announced its partnership with SK Networks and Microsoft to commercialize its platform and services, with Microsoft offering the cloud processing power and SK Networks managing distribution. Meanwhile, Humane is engaging with OpenAI to integrate its generation into the startup. device, whatever form it ends up taking, exactly. LG, meanwhile, is running Humane on R projects.
To date, San Francisco-based Humane, which employs over two hundred people, has raised $230 million from investors including Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, Kindred Ventures, SK Networks, LG Technology Ventures, Microsoft, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Tiger Global, Qualcomm Ventures and OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman.