Humane wrapped its bet against the iPhone in the cloak of AI and lost

The Ai Pin is officially dead. Parts of Humane have been sold to HP, and the Ai Pin will cease to function in a week. Cause of death? An outdated and undercooked bet against the iPhone made by former Apple engineers that Humane tried to disguise as artificial intelligence hardware. Bloomberg reports that HP has agreed to acquire assets from Humane for $116 million. Humane’s sole product, Ai Pin, won’t become an HP product. Instead, HP will put the parts of Humane that it is acquiring into its AI portfolio. Despite the product’s name, there wasn’t a whole lot of AI in the Ai Pin. The hardware was basically an Apple Watch-sized version of the iPhone. Only it had no display aside from a low fidelity projector that relied on an unintuitive hand gesture system to control. It could summarize your text messages, but not your text messages. Just the ones that people sent to your special Ai Pin phone number. The actual AI aspects mostly relied on early versions of ChatGPT. Apple isn’t doin ... Read full article.