HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million… Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout
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All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
Submitted 3 days ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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paequ2@lemmy.today 3 days ago
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
HP. Now there’s a company with an eye for the future! 🤭
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
That still seems like a wildly high buyout.
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Even 116 mil is too much for this trash product.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If HP does anything with that IP they will 110% find a way to make it even worse.
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
‘I’ll give you tree-fiddy’
-HP, probably
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
[The Humane AI team will form an] AI innovation lab focused on building an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s products and services for the future of work
Hope they like figuring out how to sell printer ink
FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee 3 days ago
“It’s like chatgpt but it only prints replies on physical paper so it’s a premium experience, and the ai is expressive so it will use delightfully colorful, full page background images for its replies.”
artificialfish@programming.dev 3 days ago
I’ve been in an acquisition like this. I feel for anyone who has their startup work dismantled by an acquisition just looking to hire and squash their product.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The product was a failure long before HP got anywhere near it
MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Internet of things == internet of trash
Don’t buy shit you cannot own
cynar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
IoT can be great. The key is, as you pointed out, to actually have personal control over it.
It also has to account for WAF (wife acceptance factor). If it doesn’t fail gracefully to a dumb version of itself, it’s not to be trusted
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 days ago
Oh good, more useless e-waste.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Everytime there is a new technology everyone rushes to cram it into literally anything. Like when Bluetooth came out. Or the first apps, blockchain, etc. It’s honestly sickening in my actual stomach. Big or small e-waste for all.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
They worked before? Not what I heard.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think the article says they will work less than before.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
They’re gonna suddenly be too light to use as a paper weight? 🤨
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A little shocked the Rabbit R1 outlived them. Mine is still chugging, though a lot of the features (like MidJourney integration) have been halted.
Gonna be a fun little Android media player in a few months I suppose.
paequ2@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I mean, the R1 was $200, came with a year of Perplexity, and didn’t require a subscription.
The Pin started at $500 and required a subscription, along with a new phone number.
Not that surprised.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 days ago
I thought that the subscription money was what would keep them afloat for longer
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had never heard of it. From wiki
The Ai Pin is a wearable device, meant to be attached to the user’s shirt at chest level. It is a voice assistant and cellular phone, equipped with a camera, and a limited monochrome “screen” that’s projected onto the user’s hand on demand. The user mostly interacts with the device through a small touchpad, and also hand gestures when the projection screen is active.[15]
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It has AI in the name.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Yep!
All the tech companies are invested in AI, and it’s gloriously expensive to do from scratch. Instead, they’ll drop $100 million to “stay relevant in today’s climate” without doing any work.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
If nothing else, the list of customers who were interested enough to spend money on such a product might be valuable to them.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
10,000 buyers. Yeah, no.
Even it was much higher, yeah no.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Nothing, and that’s why they are shutting it down. You should read the article, HP’s comments on what they get from the acquisition are directly quoted in it.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Seriously?
Ok:
What the hell does hp see in IP in this?
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
IP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren’t a pocket change, but if anyone’s going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP’d make a hole in their pockets. It’s a low stakes conservative gamble ‘just in case’.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have a hard time seeing much patentable. They can’t just patent ‘wearable pin’, it has to be much more specific.
Jode@midwest.social 3 days ago
distant Zitron laughing
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My man is going to get a permanent desk at TrashFuture if this keeps up.
nick@midwest.social 3 days ago
Lol
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Was anyone ever able to accurately count the number of almonds in their hand?
FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Oh man, they are gonna ruin like 5 people’s day with this.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Is it that many?
JayGray91@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At least as many as techtubers influencers received them. So 1 too many of this grift.