The next generation of AI hardware should be fundamentally about an aware, contextual, companion-like system focused on ambient environmental awareness rather than screen dependency, requiring deep contextual understanding to provide exactly the right response in any situation.

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Brad Lightcap

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it's going to be really about an awareness of kind of the ambient environment. What's going on? What's I mean Sam mentioned the kind of trivial example of like something that you know is looking at your email. You can build something that's really bad that does that today, but to get to the version of that that's like transcendently good, there's a ton of context and a ton of awareness

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