London-based consumer tech startup Nothing has raised $200 million and vowed to usher in a new generation of \u201cAI-native\u201d devices running on operating systems that \u201care significantly different from the ones today.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a press release that reads part ode to technology and part manifesto, Nothing founder and CEO Carl Pei said the cash infusion \u2014 which values Nothing at $1.3 billion \u2014 will help the company ramp up distribution and accelerate innovation.<\/p>\n
At the heart of Nothing\u2019s plans is AI. Pei said the company is \u201cbuilding the foundations for the future\u201d on a focused \u201cAI OS\u201d to deliver a \u201chyper-personalized experience.\u201d However, it\u2019s unclear if Nothing\u2019s operating system ambitions are built on top of Android like Nothing OS. We\u2019ve reached out for clarification.<\/p>\n
This \u201cAI-native platform\u201d will run hardware in widespread use today like smartphones, headphones, and smart watches, Pei said, as well as other devices like smart glasses, electric vehicles, and humanoid robots. He confidently predicts Nothing\u2019s new OS will run \u201cwhatever comes next,\u201d too. That said, last October Pei just as confidently proclaimed<\/a> that \u201cAI is just a tool\u201d and that the company\u2019s OS should not be described as an AI operating system.<\/p>\n Nothing plans to release its first AI-native devices next year. Its chief challenge will be generating demand in a category that has historically failed to engage the mass market and where success has eluded even the industry\u2019s biggest players like Apple. There\u2019s no shortage of competitors either, including the mysterious \u201cscreen free\u201d device<\/a> former Apple designer Jony Ive is creating with OpenAI.<\/p>\n Nothing says it\u2019s uniquely positioned to create these future AI devices. \u201cOwning the last-mile distribution point with all its contextual and user knowledge is essential to developing an OS that will help people in their daily lives,\u201d said Pei. \u201cAn AI OS that doesn\u2019t know its user and isn\u2019t ever-present can\u2019t deliver a hyper-personalised experience. This is the next chapter for Nothing, integrating an AI experience into our hardware devices to reinvent how technology amplifies us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London-based consumer tech startup Nothing has raised $200 million and vowed to usher in a new generation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,203,61,60,43,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-24973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}