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As reported in my previous article on the Ai Pin (see here) we got our first look in April at a smart-phone replacing, wearable, screen-less, standalone device built from the ground up for AI - the Humane Ai Pin (yes, lowercase “i” in AI) - when it was demoed during a TED Talk led by Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri. The scheduled launch date was set for November 9th, and that date is here.

In the Ted Talk, Chaudhri reported that the Humane Ai Pin:

• was equipped with:
  • a laser-projected display that takes the place of a smartphone screen,
  • AI-powered optical recognition,
  • a camera,
  • a built-in speaker, which Humane calls a “personic speaker,” which can connect to Bluetooth headphones, and
  • a range of sensors that enable natural and intuitive compute interactions,
• was powered by an advanced Snapdragon chip platform from Qualcomm Technologies,
• would run on a Humane-branded version of T-Mobile’s network with access to AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI,
• was designed to weave seamlessly into users’ day-to-day lives,
• is privacy-first, with aspects such as no wake word and therefore no ‘always on’ listening, 
• did not need to be paired with a smartphone or other companion device, 
• would presents a huge opportunity for people to redefine their relationship to technology,
• would enable personal mobile computing to become faster, more powerful, and easier to use and concluded by stating that the Ai Pin
• would allow people to bring Ai with them everywhere.

TheVerge.com reported yesterday that the Humane Ai Pin:

• costs $699,
• has a $24-a-month subscription fee,
• magnetically clips to one's clothes or other surfaces with the clip also serving as a battery pack so you can swap in new batteries (the device ships with two “battery boosters”) throughout the day to keep the Pin running,
• is primarily a voice-based device, but the green laser projector can project information onto your hand and you can also hold objects up to the camera and interact with the Pin through gestures, as there’s a touchpad on the device,
• isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it and it has a “Trust Light,” which blinks on whenever the Pin is recording.
• can write messages that sound like you,
• has a feature that will summarize your email inbox for you,
• can translate languages,
• can identify food to provide nutritional information and
• provides an “AI DJ” that picks music for you 
• and provides a way to manage the device - a tool called Humane.center - and set up and customize your device before you start wearing it.

As mentioned in my previous article, Luke Lango, the editor of Hypergrowth Investing, expressed the opinion that the internet didn’t go mainstream and truly change the world until the iPhone launched and, similarly, that AI won’t go mainstream and truly change the world until it has its own iPhone moment. He thought that moment would be with the introduction of the Ai Pin (or a competitive device) which puts the power of AI in everyone’s hands, just as the iPhone did for the internet 15 years ago. That moment is today, November 9th, with the launch of Humane's Ai Pin. It remains to be seen, though, if today is the day the Humane Ai Pin "truly changed the world". Stay tuned.

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