Credit: Nothing on X.com Nothing will ship its first AI device in December, and it is built for work. Chief executive Carl Pei announced it on Wednesday in a long essay on X. He gave no name, price or launch date. \u201cIt\u2019s a tool, but one built with the personality and care that have come to define a Nothing product. It has no new screen, and it couldn\u2019t have been an app,\u201d Pei wrote.<\/p>\n
His only image shows the dark corner of a rounded device. It carries the words \u201cNothing (R)\u201d and \u201cComing soon\u201d. No iPhone moment yet Most of Pei\u2019s essay argued against the hunt for a single breakthrough AI gadget. \u201cThe whole industry is hunting for its iPhone moment: the pendant, the pin, the glasses, the companion, some magical consumer device that makes AI part of everyone\u2019s life,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI admire the boldness, but I read this moment differently.\u201d Pei said new technology wins people over at work first. Computers spread as spreadsheet machines and mobile phones as car phones for dealmakers, he wrote.<\/p>\n
He said coding alone makes up more than half of what companies spend on AI built for specific jobs. Pei wants to fix what he calls a \u201ccontext gap\u201d. AI models are capable, he wrote, but they know little about a person\u2019s day. People still copy emails, calendars and Slack threads into a chat box, and they lose ideas from conversations. \u201cClose it, and everything AI can already do gets dramatically more useful,\u201d Pei wrote.<\/p>\n
Glean chief executive Arvind Jain also talked about giving AI more context about work on the TNW podcast in October. Glasses in the rumour mill Pei also argued that work tools should look as good as consumer ones, and pointed to Olivetti\u2019s Valentine typewriter. Nothing makes phones and earbuds, and Pei wrote that \u201ctens of millions\u201d of its devices are in use. Nothing first announced plans for \u201cAI-native\u201d devices about a year ago, The Verge noted.<\/p>\n
A report last month said it plans two pairs of AI smart glasses. Rivals already sell AI glasses, from Alibaba\u2019s Qwen N1 to Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans. Get the TNW newsletter \u2715 Close Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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