Nothing’s AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds

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London-based hardware institution Nothing is connected way to merchandise a brace of astute glasses adjacent year, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.

The glasses volition apt diagnostic cameras, microphones and speakers, and volition link to a smartphone and the unreality to process AI queries, the study said.

CEO and co-founder Carl Pei was initially resistant to the thought of astute glasses, but helium has since told employees that helium wants to absorption connected a multi-device strategy, expanding the company’s remit beyond its existing smartphone lines and audio gear, Bloomberg said.

The institution is besides readying to merchandise a brace of earbuds with AI features this year. Last year, Pei told TechCrunch that it planned to merchandise its archetypal AI instrumentality successful 2026, though helium didn’t specify what benignant of instrumentality it mightiness be.

If the study is true, Nothing would beryllium going up against the likes of Meta, Even Realities, and Rokid, each of which marque astute glasses. Meta has truthful acold launched aggregate versions of its astute glasses, and earlier this week showed disconnected two models that enactment medicine lenses. Apple is rumored to merchandise a brace of smart glasses adjacent year, and Google’s astute glasses with Samsung are rumored to onshore this year.

Nothing became a unicorn past twelvemonth aft it raised a $200 cardinal Series C circular astatine a $1.3 cardinal valuation. The institution has been fashionable among tech enthusiasts acknowledgment to its unsocial design, which often features transparent and see-through elements. However, it inactive lone accounts for a tiny stock of the smartphone market, which has agelong been dominated by incumbents Apple, Samsung, a fewer Chinese companies and Google itself.

Pei has said aggregate times that Nothing would request to innovate connected the hardware and bundle front, and usage AI, to basal retired successful the market. The institution past twelvemonth launched a instrumentality that lets radical make mini apps utilizing AI prompts.

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