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fromZDNET
1 week agoAlibaba's new smart glasses take on Meta Ray-Bans - here's what they offer
Another company is throwing a pair of smart glasses into the ring. Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled its first smart glasses, the Quark AI Glasses, in July, and they are officially on pre-sale starting today, Oct. 24. Could they be Meta Ray-Bans' newest rival? The AI-infused glasses are powered by the company's Qwen large language model, which already has over 400 million downloads and 140,000 derivative downloads, Alibaba wrote in a press release at the time.
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fromFuturism
3 weeks agoCocky AI CEO Does Photoshoot in Front of His Subway Ads That Got Relentlessly Vandalized
AI startup Friend's subway ads for a constantly-listening AI pendant attracted vandalism and public backlash while the CEO framed the controversy as intentional provocation.
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks agoA Walk With New York's Most Hated Tech Founder
If you haven't already heard of Friend, the company that makes a $129 wearable AI companion-a plastic disk, containing a microphone, on a necklace-you probably also have not seen Friend's recent ad campaign. Late this past summer, Friend paid $1 million to plaster more than 10,000 white posters throughout the New York City subway system with messages such as I'll binge the entire series with you.
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fromDefector
1 month agoMark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don't Work | Defector
"Um ... there we go ... uh-oh," said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage as he attempted to answer a video call through a combination of movements between a wristband and a pair of glasses. "Well, I ... let's see what happened there ... that's too bad," he continued, shortly before cutting short the live demo. The video call went unanswered.
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fromTechCrunch
2 months agoHarvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
AI-powered always-on smart glasses will record and transcribe conversations, display real-time prompts and contextual information, and aim to augment memory and intelligence.
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