He Ai pin Humane was born as the first product of a company founded by former Apple employees, in order to make the smartphone concept obsolete. A 100% device focused on AI functions, with camera, laser projection to read Qualcomm text and processor.
In Xataka we were able to throw the glove and, from the first minute, We were clear that I was not going to succeed. Behind him Commercial failure That had the product, the last nail in the coffin has put it HP. The company has bought a good part of Humane And the first decision after sale has been to stop selling and supporting the AI Pin. A product that was just a few months in the market.
The purchase. Humane will sell most of your company to HP for 116 million dollars. Both companies have closed an agreement through which HP is made the intellectual property of more than 300 patents of Humane, including its AI platform Cosmosthe AI Pin operating system.
What HP is looking for. According to Tuan Tran statements, HP Technology and Innovation President, “this investment will quickly accelerate our ability to develop a new generation of devices that organize without problems the requests for both the local and cloud levels.”
In other words, HP wants to accelerate the implementation of AI in its products. A meaningful movement being the PCs with ia a new claim And having told Xataka the Ketan Patel himself, head of the HP PCs and Portable Division, who see the AI as a crucial component for the future of the PC.
The immediate consequence. Goodbye to AI Pin, without half inks. Humane has announced that the devices will stop connecting to their servers from next February 28.
“We write to inform you that, with immediate effect, we will end the AI Pin consumer service because our commercial priorities have changed.”
The company has not shaken the pulse to justify it due to “commercial priorities”, and explained what will happen to the devices already sold.
First, AI Pin stops selling immediately. After February 28, he will stop connecting to Humane servers, so he cannot access images, videos or notes taken with him. Similarly, from this day, all the data will be removed permanently.
In summary, AI PIN will become a pisapapeles of 700 dollars in which you can only access offline functions such as … look at the battery level.
The first great fiasco of the AI era. That a product is 100% based on AI has a potential problem. If the company decides to forget it months later, you will have a Pisapapeles without any function. In the case of Humane have been changes in commercial priorities, but the list of possible reasons (commercial failures, business sale, technical problems, regulations, bankruptcy, etc.) that can be used in the future is unabarcable.
The Humane case is a hard blow to the “AI Products” sector, throwing even more doubts about the reasonable (or not) to buy a device that depends 100% on a server.
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