Avi Greengart

@AnkerOfficial Yes, @AnkerOfficial, the company that started selling charging cables, is now designing its own silicon. First use: getting Guiness World Records for lowest noise calls, and integrating AI note-taking and Microsoft live translation on Liberty 5 Pro Max.

One of @AnkerOfficial's key announcements is the first product using its own "Thus" chip, which is the first compute-in-memory for consumer applications. Lower power for on-device neural networks. It'll eventually be used in robots, but the first use is in Liberty 5 Pro earbuds.

I wasn't able to make it into NYC for @AnkerOfficial Day -- I just got back for I/O and I'm prepping for the Shavuot holiday. But I'll follow along on the livestream and should get hands on with review units later.

@mweinbach I lucked out and only had to wait 20 minutes and pay $120 on Uber.

@greengart Absolutely insane, apparently JFK also had a bunch cancelled, flooding, and they closed a few of the main exit ramps/roads for scheduled construction yesterday and today

JFK has a solid hundred plus person taxi line right now. Pretty insane

@QuxFooBas @Google @XREAL_Global @Snapdragon That's a reasonable concern, but may be limited to specific users or use cases. I couldn't test walking directions with Maps, but I had no issues using them for see-through walk-around-the-room AR, and I'm extremely sensitive to optical distortion.

Got a good demo of Project Aura, the @Google + @XREAL_Global + @Snapdragon XR glasses with full see-through displays. 70 degree field of view, hand tracking accurate enough not to be frustrating, tethered to a compute/battery puck, and sync'd with your phone.

Last session for me at #Google before I head to the airport: @demishassabis on the future of AI. He says we’re on the cusp of AGI, that they need to communicate the benefits (ex: medical research), and that AI will change everything but net out with more jobs for humans not less.

These glasses can be see-through or electrochromatically blacked out so you can interact with apps or just have a giant virtual monitor. It gives you a lot of what you get in VR headsets in a smaller and purposely less immersive package, and a lot more than single-display or display-less glasses. More details expected at AWE.

Developer keynote here at #googleio starting. I don't plan to liveblog this one, but I've said that and posted before so 🤷‍♂️

@reneritchie Rockin with @RalphJodiceJr @anshelsag and @greengart aaaaaaaand peep Ralph’s glasses… 😉 I might have to steal them

That's it for the main #googleio keynote. Heading to lunch and some XR demos.

@Google @Samsung Next up: big AI. This #googleio segment is aimed at Wall Street, scientists, and a few dozen key AI researchers that Google would like to poach back from Anthropic.

OK, let's get this liveblog started. Just remember, #googleIO is a @Google developer conference, so I expect coding examples but also segments in random order targeting AI researchers, enterprise, investors, and consumers. /🧵