Buzzy AI hardware startup Humane Thursday announced it will start taking orders next week for its $699 Ai Pin communicator, though the device won't start shipping until early next year.
Why it matters: If consumers embrace it, the Ai Pin could help usher in a new wave of mobile hardware that uses human language commands, rather than apps, as its primary interface.
AI's story is still in its first chapter, and anything can happen. Business empires will emerge and topple, sharp fights will break out at the boundary between human and machine, and life with the tools we're building will just keep getting weirder.
Driving the news: Those were the only points on which leaders and critics of the AI revolution who spoke yesterday at Axios' first AI+ Summit in San Francisco seemed to agree.
Arm CEO Rene Haas knows that the first rule of post-IPO earnings is to meet or beat Wall Street expectations. And he thought his chip design giant had cleared the bar yesterday, until the market disagreed.
Driving the news: Arm, which in September raised $5 billion in the year's largest U.S. IPO, reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter the closing bell.
The big question nowis whether the demise of an Idaho nuclear plan is a momentary bummer for next-wave small reactors — or a really bad omen.
Driving the news: NuScale, a developer of small modular reactors (SMRs), said a project with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) won't happen.
A biotech startup aiming to bring back the woolly mammoth is partnering with an elephant conservation organization to use drones and AI to track African elephants and study their behavior.
An AI friend or lover can teach us what it means to be human, Rita Popova, the chief product officer of digital companion companies Replika and Blush, said at the Axios' AI+ Summit in San Francisco Wednesday.
Driving the news: Popova explained to Axios' Ina Fried how Replika, an AI companion service, evolved into Blush, which is an AI-powered dating simulation, and is now transforming again into an AI life coach.
The advent of AI doesn't mean today's AI leaders will dominate the next generation of tech, veteran entrepreneur Tom Siebel said at Axios' AI+ Summit in San Francisco Wednesday.
What they're saying: "It's generally assumed that Open AI or Microsoft or Facebook or Google is gonna win this battle. I don't think there's any reason to believe that at all," Siebel, who is now the CEO of C3.ai, told Axios' Ryan Heath.
Relentless chatter about artificial intelligence is more than mere hype, two top Silicon Valley investors told Axios' AI+ Summit in San Francisco Wednesday, insisting that this time really is different.
Driving the news: Anjney Midha, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Sonya Huang, a general partner at Sequoia Capital, explained to Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva that a confluence of factors have made generative AI's current moment possible — and there's a "big difference" between now and the false dawns of the past.
There's "nothing artificial" about artificial intelligence, AI pioneer and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li told Axios' Ryan Heath at Axios' AI+ Summit in San Francisco Wednesday.
Why it matters: Li says the "artificial" label is "unfortunate" because the technology is made by humans for human use.
