Consumer model
AI Pin
By Humane · wearable
- Price
- —
- Availability
- discontinued.
- Maturity
- commercial
- Real-world use
- No verified deployments
The Humane AI Pin is the canonical failure case in the AI-wearable cohort: a screenless, voice-first wearable pitched as an AI-native smartphone replacement, launched April 2024 at $499 (plus a required $24/month subscription), with a $699 variant. Functional delivery was thin against aggressive AI marketing, and the device depended on Humane's cloud. HP acquired Humane's assets in February 2025 (reported around $116M) and shut the servers down on February 28, 2025, leaving the hardware largely bricked. It is discontinued; there is no current price, and pre-shutdown unit sales were never verified at scale.
Readiness
AI Pin is discontinued, no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.
- Availability
- discontinued
discontinued.
- Price honesty
- no-price
No price points on file for AI Pin.
- Capability honesty
- no-claims
No reviewed capability claims on file for AI Pin.
- Real-world use
- commercial
Maturity: commercial. No verified deployments in the registry.
- Safety record
- no-incidents
No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.
What it claims to do
No reviewed capability claims on file.
Price
No reviewed price points on file.
Real-world use
No verified deployments on file for AI Pin.
Safety record
No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative.
Privacy
No privacy practices disclosed or on file for AI Pin.
Specs
- notes
- [{"label":"Verified","value":"Launched Apr 2024 at $499 + $24/mo; screenless, voice-first, laser-projector UI on T-Mobile cellular. Reviews were scathing (The Verge 'not even close'; MKBHD 'worst product I've reviewed... for now'). A CPSC recall covered ~10,500 Charge Cases for a lithium-battery fire hazard."},{"label":"Discontinued (verified)","value":"HP acquired Humane's assets (CosmOS software, patents, team) for ~$116M in February 2025; the AI Pin's servers were shut down Feb 28 2025, bricking cloud/cellular features. A limited 90-day refund window applied. The product is non-functional and no longer sold."},{"label":"Claimed (third-party, not Humane-disclosed)","value":"Industry estimates of under 10,000 units shipped against a reported 100,000 target, and 'returns outpaced sales,' are journalist/analyst figures (Bloomberg/TechCrunch); Humane never published official sales totals."},{"label":"Honest absence","value":"No official Humane sales figures; the support domain itself is decaying post-shutdown. The registry records this as the canonical capability-claim-vs-verified-execution failure case."},{"label":"Category","value":"AI-native wearable; form_factor=wearable. Cautionary cohort exemplar (commercial product, then discontinued) alongside Limitless (Meta-acquired, hardware ended)."}]
- launch
- April 2024 at $499 (plus $24/month subscription); $699 variant
- interface
- voice + laser ink projector (hand-projected display); no screen
- formFactor
- wearable (screenless voice-first AI pin, magnetic clip)
What's under the hood
No brain on file for AI Pin.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the AI Pin actually available for purchase?
- Availability status: discontinued.Source: Humane Inc. (founding 2018, Chaudhri + Bongiorno, ex-Apple; ~$230M raised)
- What does the AI Pin cost?
- Not announced.
- Where is the AI Pin being used?
- No verified field deployments on record.
- Is the AI Pin safe?
- No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.
- How does the AI Pin handle privacy?
- No privacy practices disclosed or on file for AI Pin.
- Who makes the AI Pin?
- AI Pin is made by Humane, based in San Francisco, California, USA.Source: Humane Inc. (founding 2018, Chaudhri + Bongiorno, ex-Apple; ~$230M raised)
Manufacturer
Humane (registry record: /companies/humane)
Compared to
- Hey Pocketby Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket) · wearable
- Xiaomi AI Glassesby Xiaomi · wearable
- Omiby Based Hardware · wearable
Sources
- Humane's AI Pin is dead; HP buys assets (CosmOS + team) for $116M · https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/humanes-ai-pin-is-dead-as-hp-buys-startups-assets-for-116m/
- Humane shutting down; HP buys some assets · https://www.axios.com/2025/02/18/humane-ai-pin-shut-down-hp
- HP acquiring parts of Humane for $116M; AI Pin shutting down · https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/hp-humane-deal-ai-pin-shutting-down/
- Humane AI Pin review: not even close ($699 + $24/mo; broken) · https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review
- CPSC recall: AI Pin Charge Case lithium-battery fire hazard (~10,500 units) · https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Humane-Recalls-Charge-Case-Accessory-for-Ai-Pin-Due-to-Lithium-Battery-Fire-Hazard
- 10,000+ AI Pin chargers recalled (fire hazard) · https://www.fastcompany.com/91220472/humane-ai-pin-recall-chargers
- Humane AI Pin shutdown FAQ (servers off Feb 28 2025; 90-day refund window) · https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34243204841997-Ai-Pin-Consumers-FAQ
- Humane Inc. (founding 2018, Chaudhri + Bongiorno, ex-Apple; ~$230M raised) · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Inc.
- Humane explores sale weeks after launch (third-party reported) · https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/wearable-ai-startup-humane-is-said-to-explore-potential-sale
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Canonical: https://deploy.report/models/humane-ai-pin