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Humane News, 18 February 2025:

HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced a definitive agreement to acquire key AI capabilities from Humane, including their AI-powered platform Cosmos, highly skilled technical talent, and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and patent applications. The acquisition advances HP’s transformation into a more experience-led company.

Humane Support:

First and foremost, thank you for being an early adopter of Ai Pin. Your support, feedback, and enthusiasm have been instrumental in shaping this technology, and we are truly grateful to have had you on this journey with us. We are writing to inform you that, effective immediately, we are winding down the consumer Ai Pin as our business priorities have shifted. What This Means for You: • End of Consumer Availability: Effective immediately, new purchases of the consumer Ai Pin will be discontinued. • Device Timeline: Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired. • Device Features: Your Ai Pin features will no longer include calling, messaging, Ai queries/responses, or cloud access. • Data Access: We strongly encourage you to sync your Ai Pin over Wi-Fi and download any stored pictures, videos, and notes from .Center before February 28, 2025. If you do not do this, your data will be lost upon deletion on February 28, 2025 at 12pm PST. • Data Deletion: On February 28, 2025 at 12pm PST all remaining consumer data will be permanently deleted. … Once again, thank you for being an early supporter of Ai Pin. Your engagement has meant the world to us, and we deeply appreciate the role you’ve played in our innovation journey. Warmly, The Humane Team

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That's really all you need. A perfect product!

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Das Konzept ist eigentlich sehr genial #Ai Pin

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CHAT GPT 4o + AI PIN = ANOTHER THINK LIKE HER

Open AI nous a encore bluffé voici quelques jours. Mais derrière cette omniscience, quelles pistes d'avenir nous attend (probablement)?

Temps de lecture : 2 minutesmots-clés : Chat GPT, Open IA, AI Pin, 4o, scarlett Johansson, Joachim Phoenix Chers lecteurs, Disclaimer : si vous êtes un geek invétéré et que vous suivez l’actu Tech au quotidien, que vous lisez tout ce qui sort avant même de l’avoir vu, passer votre chemin avec cet article ! non pas qu’on ne vous aime pas, mais l’objectif est ici d’offrir une réflexion à…

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Is the #Humane #AI #Pin the New #Smartphone Challenger?

Ready to explore the next big thing in #tech?

Smartphone capabilities + AI, all in one #wearable #device.

Is the #Humane #AI #Pin the New #Smartphone Challenger? Read on:

Video: @raywongy

#technology #news #artificialintelligence

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▶️ Humane AI Pin Review • The Verge

Humane AI pin reviews are starting. I am curious if humane thinks the response delays will be beat faster than their own runway lasts.

Written words if that’s your jam, like me. There are all the signs of a first generation product. However, I must admit that the industrial design is appealing for a gadget. The slowness is very much expected and it is fascinating to see how this breaks. For example, when David asks it to play a song: Sometimes it works fine! Way more often, I have interactions like this one: Me: “Play ‘Texas…

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The Humane AI Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager

The Humane AI pin has no screen, no apps, and a creepy in-your-face camera.

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It also didn’t work. Like, it literally just didn’t work.

The battery overheated. You couldn’t read the projected display in sunlight. Its translations were gibberish. But Humane promised lots and lots of features in the fabulous future! [Verge]

How well built was it? “Before showing the gadget to prospective partners and investors, Humane executives often chilled it on ice packs so it would last longer.” [NYT, archive]

Dead AI IoT

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin

By David Gerard on 19 February 2025

Humane, creator of the fabulous and literally nonfunctional Ai Pin gadget — that's "Ai," not "AI" — has finally thrown in the towel.

After Humane took $230 million in venture funding and tried and failed to sell itself for $1 billion, Hewlett-Packard is paying $116 million to acqui-hire most of the team and get Humane’s software and patents. [Humane, archive]

There was also some burbling from HP about “an intelligent ecosystem across all HP devices from AI PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms,” which probably means floundering a bit then selling the software on once again, as they did with Palm and WebOS.

We’re sure that Humane’s venture capital backers — including Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Marc Benioff — will be delighted that minus-50% is now the expected realized return on AI investments in the bubble.

HP is notably not taking on the Ai Pin itself — probably because it’s completely useless and doesn’t work. The hardware overheats and fails, the projected display isn’t visible in sunlight, and the software chains together LLMs to fail to understand or translate conversations. Also, it might catch fire.

The remaining Ai Pins will work until February 28, when the back-end servers at Humane shut down. After that date, you can ... check the battery level? Pretty good for a $700 gadget with a $24/month subscription. We’re sure both customers will be delighted. ]Humane, archive; Humane, archive]

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e441 — Snake in a Tube

Stories about snakes, legs (and lack thereof!), robotics, Swedish startups, the Humane AI Pin, composing your own games, and LEGO

Photo by Moritz Mentges on Unsplash Published 20 November 2023 Michael and Michael get together to talk tech while Andy is away.  They have an amazing episode, with many twists & turns.  The first turn begins with the traffic laws of the UK related to roundabouts, shared by friend of the podcast, Ian Hughes.   Next, is the first of a series of stories with legs – a snake in a tube controlling…

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¿El fin de la era del 'smartphone'? Este nuevo dispositivo busca destronarlo

El Ai Pin, creado por una ‘startup’ fundada por exempleados de Apple, cuenta con una amplia gama de funciones, y está apoyado por la inteligencia artificial. La ‘startup’ de inteligencia artificial (IA) fundada por exempleados de Apple, hu.ma.ne, presentó su dispositivo Ai Pin, con el que pretende sustituir a largo plazo a cualquiera de los teléfonos inteligentes actuales. Según el video…

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The risks behind the generative AI craze: Why caution is growing

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/the-risks-behind-the-generative-ai-craze-why-caution-is-growing/

The risks behind the generative AI craze: Why caution is growing

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In the near future, Silicon Valley might look back at recent events as the point where the generative AI craze went too far.

This past summer, investors questioned whether top AI stocks could sustain their sky-high valuations, given the lack of returns on massive AI spending. As Autumn approaches, major AI sectors—such as chips, LLMs, and AI devices—received renewed confidence. Nonetheless, there are an increasing number of reasons to be cautious.

Cerebras: A chip contender with a major risk

Chip startup Cerebras is challenging Nvidia’s dominance by developing processors designed to power smarter LLMs. Nvidia, a major player in the AI boom, has seen its market cap skyrocket from $364 billion at the start of 2023 to over $3 trillion.

Cerebras, however, relies heavily on a single customer: the Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42. In 2023, G42 accounted for 83% of Cerebras’ revenue, and in the first half of 2024, that figure increased to 87%. While G42 is backed by major players like Microsoft and Silver Lake, its dependency poses a risk. Even though Cerebras has signed a deal with Saudi Aramco, its reliance on one client may cause concerns as it seeks a $7-8 billion valuation for its IPO.

OpenAI’s record-breaking funding – but with strings attached

OpenAI made the news when it raised $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation, becoming the largest investment round in Silicon Valley history. However, the company has urged its investors not to back competitors such as Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI—an unusual request in the world of venture capital, where spread betting is common. Critics, including Gary Marcus, have described this approach as “running scared.”

OpenAI’s backers also include “bubble chasers” such as SoftBank and Tiger Global, firms known for investing in companies at their peak, which frequently results in huge losses. With top executives such as CTO Mira Murati departing and predicted losses of $5 billion this year despite rising revenues, OpenAI faces significant challenges.

Meta’s big bet on AI wearables

Meta entered the AI race by unveiling Orion, its augmented reality glasses. The wearables promise to integrate AI into daily life, with Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang endorsing the product. However, at a production cost of $10,000 per unit, the price is a major obstacle.

Meta will need to reduce costs and overcome consumer hesitation, as previous attempts at AI-powered wearables—such as Snapchat’s glasses, Google Glass, and the Humane AI pin—have struggled to gain traction.

The road ahead

What’s next for AI? OpenAI must prove it can justify a $157 billion valuation while operating at a loss. Cerebras needs to reassure investors that relying on one client isn’t a dealbreaker. And Meta must convince consumers to adopt a completely new way of interacting with AI.

If these companies succeed, this moment could mark a turning point in the AI revolution. However, as tech history shows, high-stakes markets are rarely easy to win.

(Photo by Growtika)

See also: Ethical, trust and skill barriers hold back generative AI progress in EMEA

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