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TL;DR Nothing has just announced Essential, which is a suite of AI tools.
The first tools as part of Essential are Essential Apps and Playground.
Essential Apps are effectively user-created mini-apps or widgets, while Playground is the platform used to create them.
Nothing currently offers its Essential Space feature for smart organization and productivity functionality. Now, the company has announced Essential, which is effectively an umbrella term for its AI efforts and a “first step” towards an “AI-native” operating system.
Nothing says Essential is a suite of AI tools that will eventually morph into an AI-focused operating system dubbed Essential OS, but that all-encompassing mobile platform isn’t here yet. Instead, the manufacturer says the first tools as part of this strategy are called Essential Apps and Playground.
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Essential Apps are effectively user-created workflows/mini-apps that can be added to your home screen: Just describe what you need — ‘capture the receipts from camera roll, and export a finance-ready PDF every Friday‘, ‘before my calls, show me a one-page brief based on my calendar and message threads‘, ‘create a mood tracker that syncs with a music playlist‘ — and AI generates an Essential App you can add to your home screen instantly. The manufacturer says Playground is basically the community platform used for building, tweaking, and downloading Essential Apps. Nothing adds that Playground is broadly available following an alpha release. It says users have already created Essential Apps like mental health trackers and family organizers.
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