Playground, Andy Rubin’s latest startup, aims to leverage AI in a way that’s never been implemented before. In Andy Rubin’s own words, his startup is akin to an “enduring institution, a new kind of educational system.”
But what is Playground? Staffed by seasoned engineers from Google, Apple and the like, Playground is, as Wired puts it, a mixture of incubator and consulting firm. Playground will invest in hardware startups, but rather than give those startups access simply to funds, Playground will give said startups access to the aforementioned engineers as well as a catalogue of AI systems to choose from.
The basic premise of Playground is that AI is the future and it needs to be everywhere, in your house, in your car, in every conceivable form of technology that’s at your disposal. Andy Rubin envisions Playground to be a veritable playground for supported startups, giving them access to modular AI, sensors and components that can be mixed and matched to achieve exactly what Playground’s mentored startups hope to achieve. Playground’s in-house team will work on creating such modular AI systems and components and offer them to startups or companies that seeks such systems. Mix and match and build what you want. At least, that’s the plan.
As Andy Rubin puts it, “Great people create great companies, and mentoring those people is the most leveraged investment. We are creating an enduring institution, a new kind of educational system. We want our entrepreneurs to think of graduating Playground the way that we think of graduating Stanford, MIT or Hogwarts.”
He’s ecstatic at the possibilities that AI affords, to say that we are any less ecstatic would be an understatement. With a man of Andy Rubin’s calibre at the helm, we have high hopes for Playground.
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