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Humane and the AI Pin
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- 0:00Two former Apple designers tried to
- 0:01replace your phone with pin. Within a
- 0:04year, it was switched [music] off.
- 0:06Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno
- 0:08left Apple and started Humane in 2018.
- 0:11For 5 years, they kept it secret.
- 0:13[music] Then they revealed a small pin
- 0:15you wear on your shirt. It projects a
- 0:17screen onto [music] your palm and talks
- 0:18AI. It cost $699 plus a monthly [music]
- 0:22subscription. Investors had put in 230
- 0:25million. It shipped in April 2024.
- 0:28The reviews were brutal. They hoped to
- 0:30sell 100,000.
- 0:32>> [music]
- 0:32>> They sold around 10,000.
- 0:34In February 2025, HP bought the team and
- 0:37the patents [music] for 116 million
- 0:40dollars.
- 0:41Not the pin. On February 28th, every pin
- 0:44stopped working.
- 0:45>> Follow Vibecession for more.
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