AI Hardware and Software News

Humane Inc. is reportedly seeking a buyer for its business. The company is reportedly working with a financial adviser to assist with the sale and is seeking USD750M-1B from prospective buyers. The company previously raised USD230M from investors, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman. While Humane had said it would improve the AI Pin over time with software updates, founders Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno have largely remained silent about the product and the company’s future. (Android Authority, Bloomberg, The Verge)

To facilitate the deployment of Gemini Nano on devices, Google created a new system service in Android called AICore. AICore simplifies things for developers by handling Gemini Nano model downloads/updates and leveraging on-device hardware to accelerate inference when apps call the Gemini Nano API. Google has revealed some of the companies it allowed to have early access to the AI Edge SDK for Android. These early adopters include Patreon, Grammarly, and Adobe. Google is set to debut a more powerful version of Gemini Nano, called Gemini Nano with multimodality, on its upcoming Pixel 9 series. Current Gemini Nano models come in 1.8B or 3.25B parameter sizes, while the new model will come in a 3.8B parameter size and also support audio and image processing. (Phone Arena, Android Authority)