The Next Frontier of AI: New Hardware & Intelligent Platforms

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Hi everyone,

Kevin here, I’m the Chief Commercial Officer at Pleroma Media and TechTimes, stepping briefly into your regularly scheduled programming from Rob, our Managing Editor.

It’s been almost a month since we kicked off this newsletter journey with you, diving into the evolving world of AI through AI Explained and with support from our very first sponsor, Plaud.AI, who helped make this series possible.

Thank you for being part of this conversation. AI is evolving faster than almost any technology in recent memory. As a newsroom, we’re navigating that wave daily, weighing how to embrace these tools without losing what makes us distinctly human: our voice, our curiosity, and our perspective born of lived experience and passion.

Recently, I had the chance to sit down with the Plaud team in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, over coffee at Copper Mug (highly recommend). We chatted about what’s coming next in AI-powered hardware and software. It made me reflect on my own path before media: nearly a decade building wearable AI at Origami Labs, co-founding ORII (a voice assistant ring) with my dad, a brilliant, visually impaired computer researcher and early member of Microsoft’s accessibility team. He was one of the pioneers in text-to-speech long before it became foundational to the tools we take for granted today.

Back then, voice assistants and natural language tools weren’t reliable enough to depend on. But one thing we learned early: great technology pairs functionality with radical simplicity. That’s what separates the PalmPilot from the first iPhone, both useful, but only one intuitive enough to scale.

Plaud’s product isn’t perfect yet (they know it — improvements are coming), but it already works. A single button, and your conversation is captured, transcribed, and tagged. Even for a crazy experimenter like me, tinkering with RAG & CAG pipelines and the latest frontier models, - it’s refreshing to find something that just does what it says, cutting through all the noise.

I hope to see more of that: AI products that don’t just promise, but deliver.

Thanks again for being here. We’ll be back with more TechTimes highlights and insights next week.

Best,

Kevin Johan Wong

Chief Commercial Officer

Pleroma Media | TechTimes

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Until next time,

AI EXPLAINED team