Humane’s Ai Pin, which promised to switch your smartphone with a smooth wearable machine, is formally lifeless. After a rocky launch, unfavourable evaluations, and returns outpacing gross sales, the startup is shutting down and promoting its property to HP for $116 million — lower than half of what it raised. However what’s subsequent for Humane’s tech, and for the broader class of AI-powered wearables?
In the present day, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha are breaking down the week’s tech and startup headlines, together with what HP would possibly do with Humane’s assets and expertise and the way, as Max put it, the Ai Pin was clearly forward of its time.
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