Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month

In Brief

Nothing, the smartphone startup down the distinctive Nothing Phone, is moving connected an AI product, but what it is remains unclear.

On Wednesday, CEO Carl Pei posted connected X that the company’s archetypal “AI-native product” ships successful December. “It’s a tool, but 1 built with the property and attraction that person travel to specify a Nothing product. It has nary caller screen, and it couldn’t person been an app,” Pei wrote.

Pei has teased an AI-first instrumentality for immoderate time and the institution has besides said that it plans to merchandise a brace of AI-linked astute glasses, arsenic good arsenic earbuds with AI integrations.

Pei’s statement adds up to a screenless non-app that uses AI? He besides calls it arsenic a “productivity tool.” Adding further mystique to the announcement, Pei seems to downplay immoderate nexus to AI wearables.

“The full manufacture is hunting for its iPhone moment: the pendant, the pin, the glasses, the companion, immoderate magical user instrumentality that makes AI portion of everyone’s life,” Pei wrote. “I respect the boldness, but I work this infinitesimal differently.”

No steadfast merchandise day has been announced, but Nothing fans should cognize soon capable what the institution has successful store for them.

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