The company’s hardware division, now led by ex-Apple executive Tang Tan, has poached at least 25 staff from Cupertino and is targeting a 2026 launch for its first product.
Unless this speaker runs a local model somehow, what makes it different from a speaker with the ChatGPT API integrated? Is that all this is?
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The device — described by suppliers as something that resembles a screenless smart speaker (in other words, an Alexa-adjacent device)
That sure sounds like that’s all this is. With how many OEM parts related to smart speakers there are available these days, doesn’t 20+ engineers seem like a lot for something like that?
Unless this speaker runs a local model somehow, what makes it different from a speaker with the ChatGPT API integrated? Is that all this is?
Edit:
That sure sounds like that’s all this is. With how many OEM parts related to smart speakers there are available these days, doesn’t 20+ engineers seem like a lot for something like that?
The Home Assistant community literally came up with one…