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The Humane AI Pin never had a chance

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The much-hyped Humane AI Pin never had a chance.

The company has sold some of its remnant technology to HP.

The Pin was junk, but the company never seemed to put a foot right.

It will go down in tech history as one of the most spectacular gadget failures of all time.

Humane just tried to do too much, and reinvent too many things, that it would have had to execute at unheard-of levels for a first -time startup to pull it off.

Humane also made a huge bet on AI technology that, while it continues to improve, also continues to be woefully inadequate for most things.

We're only now seeing companies like OpenAI begin to slowly give their models these so-called “agentic” capabilities.

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English

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37

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