February 9, 2025

Humane, which makes the not-great AI Pin, needs different corporations to construct AI units and devices that use its CosmOS working system, and it has released a video that seems to indicate that the corporate already has it working in a automobile, TV, good speaker, and telephone.

However be aware that the video, based on Humane’s personal nice print, is for “illustrative functions solely” — it reveals “working prototypes” and a few “simulated experiences,” and the print says that each one “designs, options, and specs” are topic to vary. So don’t take it completely at face worth.

In a single instance, the video reveals an individual speaking to CosmOS of their automobile (with a blurred out brand on the steering wheel) to show the warmth up at their home and determine what time individuals are coming over. They ask their (blurred out) good speaker a few guacamole recipe, and their TV about what number of targets a soccer participant onscreen has scored. The video additionally reveals CosmOS studying an e mail on the particular person’s telephone and responding to a query about whether or not the particular person can attend a gathering.

In case you’ve been following current AI hype, particularly round brokers, none of those examples ought to really feel notably novel — Humane needs to display that CosmOS is able to highly effective agent-like capabilities, and for corporations to contemplate it as a doable spine for his or her units. However the objects on this video aren’t Humane’s personal merchandise, and Humane clearly isn’t promising to make them. It’s constructing an SDK for others to take action.

That CosmOS SDK isn’t accessible publicly but — the company’s website solely says that it’s “coming quickly,” although you’ll be able to click on a button to “signal as much as construct with us,” which takes you to a kind to fill out. Humane doesn’t point out any companions constructing units that depend on CosmOS — the blurred-out logos on the automobile and good speaker counsel the corporate might haven’t gotten that far but. We’ve requested Humane if it may share any examples.