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Walid Behlock retweeted
Big day. Two new products from @nothing: Phone (4b) and Ear (3a).
Our team has balanced smarter tech and bolder personality with a more accessible price point. I’m so proud of what they’ve achieved and already enjoying the early reaction.
“Something about Nothing still feels different in a market where most smartphones have become variations of the same idea” - @CreativeBloq
“Nothing's entry-level tech remains very impressive from a value point of view” - @T3dotcom
“Nothing peps up its range with what looks like another winner.” - @wallpapermag
…and our RCB edition of the Phone (4b) sold out in India in under two hours.
We believe these products show new tech doesn’t have to be boring. Thanks to everyone that’s been part of the journey so far. Much more to come.
Walid Behlock retweeted
The new Nothing 4a Pro is here!
This keeps proving that Android has a wider advantage in uniqueness, personalisation and style.
And better cameras for less!
Walid Behlock retweeted
This isn’t the first time a shift like this happens and it won’t be the last.
I feel like what’s happening right now is what happened to photography — when everyone has an amazing camera and a publishing outlet to the entire world, we just get more of everything. Diversity and new ideas, class differences erased. But also a huge noise increase.
The people who would wade through the mud of challenges to master photography pre iPhones were on a path of commitment to being the best they could be. Nowadays the vast ocean of noise has weirdly dampened photography as an art. I for sure thought the opposite would happen, that people without the means to pursue photography in the pre-iPhone times would now have a stage, but they too drowned in the noise.
The same thing happened to sign making and many other fields of craft. It’s happening to software now. Average actual quality will go down and consumer expectations on quality will fall. Maybe the next 10-15 years is simply the cost of progress and we’ll build Star Trek-grade computers in a few generations from now.
Perhaps this is “good”, perhaps not. Regardless, it feels like desperate times of gold rush, not like a renaissance of software.
In some ways, software around 2010 felt like peak avg of quality. What did we culturally do back then that we changed or stopped doing, I wonder…
Walid Behlock retweeted
Something big is happening in robotics - and it’s hiding in plain sight.
This post is not about dancing robots but in the data that powers them. Open robotics datasets have exploded this year, turning the field into a more scalable and collaborative ecosystem.
In just two years, @huggingface datasets grew from 11k to over 600k - and robotics is by far the fastest-growing segment. We went from 1k robotics datasets in 2024 to 27k in 2025!
For comparison, text generation, the second-largest category, has only around 5k datasets in 2025. That gap is massive.
Open datasets are important because robotics lives and dies by real-world robot data - video, actions, sensors, failures. By making this data easy to upload, reuse, and benchmark, researchers, startups, and large players are now releasing real-robot datasets that would have stayed locked inside labs just a few years ago.
Major contributors include @nvidia, LeRobot initiative, and a rapidly growing maker community. This surge is also enabled by cheaper video storage, better tooling, and an open-source AI culture now spilling into the physical world.
And it really matters: open robotics data dramatically lowers entry barriers, accelerates learning-by-doing, and speeds up progress toward generalist and humanoid robots.
Robotics won’t scale through hardware alone - but to a large extent through shared data.
Viz below from @aiworld_eu - link to the story and more viz/filters in comment.
Walid Behlock retweeted
A little note to myself in this crazy AI era: Instead of chasing the “wow”, start perfecting the “works”. True innovation isn’t just shiny new features - it’s making what users already love even better.
Walid Behlock retweeted
There's been a lot of hype around AI. Some great, some confusing. It’s great to see new companies rethinking the user experience and form factors. However, there is no doubt that smartphones will remain the main consumer AI form factor for the foreseeable future. With over 4 billion users and over 1 billion smartphones shipped every year—the numbers speak for themselves.
The way we use our smartphones needs to be redefined. The current user experience hasn't evolved for more than a decade! The next era needs a highly personalized, dynamic, and cross-device interface. One that also creates a human connection that makes tech feel more at ease to interact with.
For the last two months, we’ve been designing and prototyping AI interactions. Today, I want to show you some initial concepts to give you a better idea of what I’m talking about. Expect this to be improved and gradually introduced, starting with Phone (3) next year. It’s important we get the product right, integrating hardware and AI in a way that is both useful and brings a smile to people’s faces.
Over the last 3.5 years, we’ve been busy establishing our end to end capabilities. We’ve come a long way, being the only company that built a smartphone business in the last 10 years. We’ve also developed a creative culture in the company that emphasizes great UX and thoughtful integration between software and hardware. And as we reach stability and with solid growth plans, we’re ready to shift gears.
See this as us throwing our hat into the consumer AI race! 🏁