”Androids fader” släpper AI-baserad smartphone
Andy Rubin, en av hjärnorna bakom Googles mobila operativsystem Android, ger sig nu in i hårdvarubranschen. Rubin, som lämnade Google för två år sedan, planerar att släppa en smartphone baserad på AI-mjukvara. Till sin hjälp har Rubin rekryterat ett team på 40 personer, där bland annat före detta Apple- och Google-anställda ingår.
Telefonen, som kommer att få namnet Essential, befinner sig fortfarande på prototypstadiet. Men planen är att ha telefonen på marknaden någon gång till sommaren.
Andy Rubin på Wikipedia
Wikipedia (en)
Andrew E. "Andy" Rubin (born 1963) is an American computer programmer, engineer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the founder and CEO of tech startup incubator Playground Global and a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures. He is the co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android Inc. Andy and his wife, Rie, also own and operate Voyageur du Temps, a bakery in Los Altos, CA.
After Android was acquired by Google in 2005, Rubin became the company's Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content until March 2013, where he oversaw development of Android, an open-source operating system for smartphones. Rubin has seventeen patents for his inventions.
On 13 March 2013, Larry Page announced in a blog post that Rubin had moved from the Android division to take on new projects at Google. He was replaced by Sundar Pichai, who now serves as Google's CEO. In December 2013, Rubin started management of the robotics division of Google (which includes companies bought by Google, such as Boston Dynamics). On 30 October 2014 he left Google after nine years at the company to start an incubator for hardware startups.
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