This little AI phone has some wild ideas

It was just a year ago that I had my first demo of the Humane AI pin — which was also my last, as it turned out. But another AI gadget at this year’s MWC is trying to take off where Humane crashed and burned, and in ways it’s even weirder than the AI pin. It’s a phone that captures tons of information about you, both past and present, and uses it to create your own AI avatar to act as a virtual assistant. It’s part Rabbit R1, part Gemini Assistant, part science fiction. And oh yeah; there’s some blockchain stuff too. I told you, it’s wild. The team behind Newnal AI is based in Korea and established itself by creating a blockchain-based vaccine verification method used widely in the country. Early in my meeting with the company’s founder YT Kim, he stressed one thing to me: “We never sold cryptocurrency.” They’re clearly aware of the bad vibes around blockchain right now. Newnal’s AI phone trains an AI model on you, so it needs lots of your information. The idea is that you go around ... Read full article.