Remember, last summer, after having sold some 15,000 units sold $ 699 (to which we had to add a compulsory 5G + Openai subscription), we wondered if Humane did not go straight into the wall with his Pin AI. As a reminder, this small object, which was described as a pure technological revolution, had suffered from its launch of the first disastrous criticisms to say the least. Its founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri, had notably worked on iOS, the design of the iPhone as well as that of the Apple Watch.
Ai Pin signed Humane will be disconnected … in 10 days
And while this little connected badge had the ambition of “kill smartphones“, Humane had attempted a retraining at the end of last year, with his cosmos, an ecosystem designed to be a unified bone, operating thanks to AI. But today, the company has just officially been bought, while definitively making its farewell to its little pine.
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Reported by Bloombergit was the giant HP who came to swallow the Humane company, and who will take care of burying (once and for all) the little connected pin’s that has never proven itself. Note that Humane has been looking for a buyer since June 2024, and it was finally HP who won the bet, against 116 million euros.
For HP, it is obviously a question of taking hand, not on Ai Pin, but of the various patents deposited by Humane, and the employees of the company will be affiliated with the IA division from HP. The Humane material division will be completely dismantled, as are the servers who keep the Ai Pin alive. Thus, from the end of this month of February, all the features of the small connected badge will be unavailable.
The small device will no longer be able to transfer a call or text, and will no longer be able to access the Internet. “” “All functions that require access to the cloud such as voice interactions or exchange with AI ”will be disabled” Can we read in a FAQ. And as to whether buyers can claim a possible refund, the answer could not be clearer: no, except, if the purchase has been made in the last 90 days.
