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ReadMultiplex.com: The Same Founder Sold Apple the Face — Then Sold Apple the Unspoken Word
The Same Founder Sold Apple the Face — Then Sold Apple the Unspoken Word How Aviad Maizels’ second Cupertino exit turns PrimeSense’s light-coding lineage into connectionless intent reading on iOS. Apple’s purchase of Q AI has been reported as just another AI shopping trip: whispered speech, noisy rooms, a $1.5–$1.6 billion price, Siri that finally works in a subway. That is the public layer. It is not the story. It's a story is a 13-year circle. In November 2013 Apple confirmed it had bought PrimeSense, the Tel Aviv company whose structured-light sensor had given Microsoft’...
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Absolutely, yeah. So, with that out of the way, I mean, what if I told you Apple just spent up to $2 billion to make sure Siri can read your mind before you even open your mouth? It sounds totally insane when you say it like that out loud.
Right. It sounds like pure sci-fi. But today we're going into some incredibly strange, fascinating territory. Because, well, we're so used to the idea that action in our physical world is like thunder.
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