The short and bachelor of Humane Ai Pin may have finished. HP announced on Tuesday (February 18) that he was acquiring the company's assets and absorbing some employees for $ 116 million. Humane also announced that he is discontinuing PIN AI.
In a statement on the acquisition, HP points out that “it will acquire the key capabilities of Humane, including its platform with the cosmos, highly qualified technical talent and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and applications of patents.” He does not mention hardware.
Humane Ai was a fascinating portable computer device that arrived in November 2023. Instead of a screen, the device presented a camera to see its world and a small projector; You extended your hand and you could see small messages and information from the pin. He interacted with the platform through voice and gestures. It sounded, at that time, like the future.
However, Humane Ai Pin ranked in April 2024 when the first users issued scathing reviews. The YouTube giant Marques Brownlee called it “the worst product I have reviewed … for now.” That conclusion and a collection of other terrible reviews more or less sealed their destiny. Well, that and problems with the mass clip that may have been a danger of fire. Even Techradar described him as one of the greatest technological failures of 2024.
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However, HP sounds more than impressed with the system's abilities and plans to weave them (or some form of them) in HP products. From the statement: Humane engineers “” will help us create an intelligent ecosystem on all HP devices, from AI PC to smart printers and connected conferences. This will unlock new levels of functionality for our clients and fulfill the promises of AI. “
For HP, which has been relatively quiet in AI's innovation front, this acquisition could be a true blessing for your business. As for the humanitarian AI team, they have only praise for their new owners. In a statement on the Humane website, Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri, co -founders of Humane, wrote: “We are excited to join HP at such a crucial moment in the industry and help shape the future of intelligent experiences,” said.
Humane said in a separate statement that the Humanes Pins will no longer connect to the Humane cloud servers after February 28, 2025.
The acquisition of assets is good news for fans of human AI and less good news for those who paid $ 699 for the PIN. Maybe HP offers them discounts on any HP product that end with human.
Clarification 2-18-2025: An earlier version of this story indicated that HP would suspend the human pin. HP tells us that “HP is not buying human, nor is we closing its pin.” The company is “acquiring key assets.”
