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Andy Halliday

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The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

And the team primarily, the pendant, by the way, was something that was listening 24-7 and could remember and record and transcribe your real-world conversations.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

And then you would have access to that information with an AI assistant.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

So you could go and say, well, what did Brian say five minutes ago about the such and such?

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

And it'll repeat it back to you.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

Well, that's the promise.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

I have no idea whether that worked well or not.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

But let me stop and just ask Beth, did you get your pendant?

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

I don't know what's going to happen to my payment, but I think they're probably going to refund it because they're not going to proceed with deliveries of those pendants, though they're going to support the existing pendants for one year.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

A team now is going to focus instead on Meta's existing AR, augmented reality, and AI wearables rather than launching their own new products.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

So it was an acqui-hire, but it basically wipes out the whole product line that was limitless.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

Although Meta might provide something that's similar.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

in order to compete more directly with what will come out from OpenAI with Johnny Ive and this, you know, mysterious, you know, non-glasses, we're pretty sure it's not glasses.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

And then the last thing I wanted to say,

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

is that I finally got the thing that I got suckered into because they're named after me.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

These are the holiday glasses.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

They finally came.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

So now, you know, this is a lesson in just...

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

you know, how not to make mistakes when you're buying things.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

So I was excited because it has, as you, you might be able to see here.

The Daily AI Show
Poetic’s Win, OpenAI Pressure, and a Messy Week for Consumer AI

Okay.