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https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34374173951373-... "Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired."
If someone had written this as satire when they released the pin it would have seemed a little harsh
Props to the management for keeping everyone employed even as the company and product died.
https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34374173951373-... "Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired."
https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34374173951373-... "Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired."
It's a $700 device with a $24/month subscription fee, and will be bricked in ten days. At least the equally-panned Rabbit R1, released around the same timeframe and riding the same AI hype, only cost $200 with no subscription.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/rabbit-r1-mobile-ai-device-pers...
I bet this was their goal all along. I was saying this when the product launched. Funny, I don't see anything in this announcement about refunds?...
They shoved those in a little "important update" FAQ.
"You are eligible to receive a refund if your product shipped on or after November 15th, 2024. All device shipments prior to November 15th, 2024 are not eligible for refunds. All refunds must be submitted by February 27th, 2025."
Oh, and good news... "After February 28, 2025, Ai Pin will still allow for offline features like battery level, etc., but will not include any function that requires cloud connectivity like voice interactions, AI responses, and .Center access." ... you can still look at your battery level, I suppose!
How does this deal get made unless someone at HP owes some humane investor a favor?
How does this deal get made unless someone at HP owes some humane investor a favor?
highly unlikely they spent all of it. If they spent 130 million dollars, for example, they'd have $100m in the bank and this $116m txn is net $10m acquihire.
Financially, this probably didn't cost HP much yet. The real cost is whatever they approved for this team to build next, which will likely be a money pit.
Official Humane release: https://humane.com/media/humane-hp
What could Humane possibly have that HP couldn’t do on their own for that much money?