{"id":173511,"date":"2023-10-05T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/humanes-ai-pin-debuts-on-the-paris-runway"},"modified":"2023-10-05T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:22:49","slug":"humanes-ai-pin-debuts-on-the-paris-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/humanes-ai-pin-debuts-on-the-paris-runway","title":{"rendered":"Humane\u2019s \u2018AI Pin\u2019 debuts on the Paris runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanes-ai-pin-debuts-on-the-paris-runway2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hu.ma.ne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Humane<\/a>, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it\u2019s worth. The company\u2019s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri. In the intervening half-decade, the firm has been largely shrouded in mystery, as it has put together the pieces of a mystery wearable, which it promises will leverage AI in unique ways.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s been buzzy since it first engaged with the media \u2014 well before it offered the slightest bit of insight into what it\u2019s been working on. In spite \u2014 or perhaps because \u2014 of such mysteries, Humane is now an extremely well-funded early-stage startup.<\/p>\n<p>At the tail end of 2020, it raised a $30 million Series A at a $150 million valuation. The $100 million B round arrived the following September, including Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Group, BOND, Forerunner Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. It all seemed like a strong vote of confidence for the still stealthy firm. This March, it went ahead and<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/08\/humane-the-secretive-ai-startup-founded-by-ex-apple-employees-raises-another-100m\/\"> raised another $100 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it\u2019s worth. The company\u2019s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri. In the intervening half-decade, the firm has been largely shrouded in mystery, as it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}