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The Ai Pin, the new gadget \/ wearable device \/ projector \/ thing from the secretive startup Humane, might cost as much as $1,000 and may require a monthly subscription for data, according to The Information<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The mysterious device has been in development for years, but we got our first good look at it during co-founder Imran Chaudhri\u2019s presentation at TED this year. In the presentation, he used then unnamed device to accept a phone call, get information about where to buy a gift, translate a sentence that is then spoken in an AI-made version of his voice in French, and even get an opinion on whether he can eat a chocolate bar. It was an impressive demo, though we had a lot of questions about how it all worked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Ai Pin is \u201ca small, screenless device about the size of a saltine cracker,\u201d The Information<\/em> reports, that will have \u201ca camera, a microphone and speaker, a variety of sensors, and a laser projector.\u201d You\u2019ll attach it to your clothes magnetically (as seen in the device\u2019s appearance at Paris Fashion Week<\/a>). It will have a Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm that will give it \u201csmartphone-level speed, connectivity, camera capabilities and security,\u201d and Humane plans to be an MVNO so that it can sell cellular data that customers can use with the Ai Pin. (Humane co-founder Bethany Bongiorno described the Ai Pin this month<\/a> as a standalone device that is a \u201cphone, contextual computer, and software platform.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The AI features in the Ai Pin will be powered by a proprietary large-language model, The Information<\/em> says \u2014 which we kind of already knew from a short Time<\/em> writeup<\/a> that said the device uses \u201ca mix of proprietary software and OpenAI\u2019s GPT.\u201d (A previous version of that article<\/a> said the Ai Pin used GPT-4, but it that \u201c4\u201d is not present in the live version.) The Time<\/em> piece also described a \u201cTrust Light\u201d privacy indicator that activates when the camera, microphone, or \u201cinput sensors\u201d are on. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n There\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about the device, or Humane\u2019s future once it launches. But according to The Information\u2019s<\/em> sources, Humane has a grander vision than just the Ai Pin; \u201cthey suggested that Humane is hoping to create a total paradigm shift in consumer computing.\u201d I\u2019m a little skeptical about that one, but I guess we\u2019ll see if Humane hints at that future when it shares more about the Ai Pin on November 9th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n