What’s the Future of AI Hardware?

Every year, consumer hardware benefits from better and more capable sensors, longer battery life, more sophisticated/diverse haptics, richer screens, sharper cameras, etc. We also see an ever-expanding number of smart devices, such as watches, VR headsets (and soon, AR glasses). All of these advances enhance and extend user immersion, even though s... See more

Jail-Breaked & Offline Appliances: It’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ll be able to interact with everyday appliances and devices with natural language. As locally run LLMs become more efficient and powerful, the prospects of having a conversation with your coffee machine in the morning aren’t unreasonable. After all, who wants to tinker with... See more

First is the observation I’ve made throughout: that people are building companies based on ideas from the 1950s and 1960s.

This is a very real thing. Earlier this week, I met with Tyler Hayes at Atom Limbs to see the robotic prosthetic he and his team are building. After he slipped the cuff on my arm and as we were waiting for the system to boot up... See more

The tech industry currently stands at a crossroads. At the twilight of social media, adtech, and crypto bull markets (bubbles?), tech workers and consumers are simultaneously exhausted by tech and starving for more. Shiny trends like Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality stand on the sidelines ready to transform latent frustrations into newfang... See more

If I had to take a bet of what the majority of iPhone owners are doing right now, it would be very simple → they’re looking at their iPhone. Hardware that powerful, produces an image that is equally powerful and equally shared. The iPhone’s image is one of self-attention.

Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along wit... See more