@vasuman: Always bullish on new hardware for the AI age
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Apoorv Shankar raised $5.5M to build an AI hardware interface that understands user intent, aiming to replace touchscreens and keyboards.
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Always bullish on new hardware for the AI age
Apoorv Shankar (@lazyapoorv): We raised $5.5M to build an AI hardware interface that knows what you want.
The world has changed: we talk to our devices, AI writes our emails, and self-driving cars pick us up.
But how we interact with it all, touchscreens and keyboards, was designed for an age of browsing
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