AI hardware is in its flip-phone phase

In a frank conversation at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Ammunition’s Robert Brunner and Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu unpacked AI hardware’s slow start.

Hardware has never been an easy business. Many of technology’s most high profile flops have been the result of a product that just didn’t make sense for its time. This past year, however, has been a special moment for hardware, as companies race to figure out what physical shape AI will take.