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Standalone devices sold to individuals on the strength of an AI capability, usually competing with an equivalent app on the buyer's phone.
Apple, Amazon and Microsoft each introduced AI devices in the past week, priced at $299, up to $500 and from $2,599. Holiday sales will give an early answer on whether AI sells hardware, though the three products test different bets.
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Oki is taking $59 reservations for Oki Home, a $1,799 computer that runs a 27-billion-parameter AI model on personal data at home. How much of that data stays in the house depends on which outside services each owner connects to it.
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Ghost opened pre-orders for Core, a $3,499 always-on computer for personal AI agents, after an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It is a bet that people running agents at home will pay to skip configuring a machine they already own.
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Meta's Muse Charm is designed for a bag-charm trend that one analyst firm expects to exceed $1 billion globally by 2030. Product teams should treat it as a test of novelty design until owners show they still use the AI once the look is old.
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Meta's first audio-only Ray-Bans drop the lens that Wetherspoon pubs and the Faslane submarine base banned, and at GBP 319 they undercut by GBP 90 the camera model Meta shipped on the same day.
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The company known for a pocket gadget now ships a cloud agent that installs on up to five Windows, macOS or Linux machines and runs on whatever model subscription the user already pays for. Four rival agents got there first.
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Rabbit has stopped making the R1 and moved its agent into a cloud service that touches desktop files through a local node. Jesse Lyu says the handheld sold more than 100,000 units before production ended.
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OS3's local agent installs with one command and then takes orders from a chat session in Rabbit's cloud, with each task's content crossing Rabbit's servers on the way to the model provider the user picked.
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Jesse Lyu says Rabbit delivered more than 100,000 R1s and has stopped making them. The agent layer now opens on hardware customers already own, and the sites it needs to act on are starting to block agents.
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Vocci's titanium ring starts transcribing a meeting on a double tap of its button, with a recording light only the wearer can see, and TechCrunch's reviewer found the transcripts good and the app a mess.
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Ternus told his first keynote as chief executive that the ideal AI device already exists. The hub Apple insiders expected instead has been waiting on an assistant Apple leases from Google and cannot yet sell in the EU.
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A dev.to post reports about six months of Rust feature work handed to Qwen 3.8 on a laptop at 10 to 15 tokens per second, with Opus 5 still reading the diffs. It is one practitioner, and the post gives no cost figures.
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A standalone AI recorder has to beat the free app on the phone it sticks to. 9to5Google's review of Comu's Action Pro shows that what the extra hardware buys you is where you are able to put it.
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