Humane to brick AI Pin, assets sold to HP

Well that didn’t last long. Last year there was quite the hoopla hype about a little product that pins onto your shirt that would function as an AI personal assistant.

Humane, The company behind the Ai Pin, struggled with brand image immediately after production of the units began rolling out to consumers. With not much added or useful functionality, fire sales of the Ai Pin began spelling the downfall for the company.

Computing company HP, has announced that it will acquire assets and patents from Humane for a little over $100 million.

The Ai Pin hardware itself is pretty undesirable and HP will not acquire the rights to that. Instead, the remains of the Humane company will officially brick all AI Pins out in the wild on February 28, 2025. After that, whoever does own an AI Pin will no longer be able to connect to the server, rending the product as a paper weight. An AI is useless without the internet and a server that hosts it’s brain after all.

The company will still fully refund any purchases that were made within 90 days of their return window. This isn’t the first time a hyped tech product bit the dust after a short run and it certainly won’t be the last.