Interesting, never heard of him. The whole thing does seem like a perfectly executed gimmick to get into tech press and shared as clickbait by the likes of me lol
avi is a grifter imo. he got famous from a covid tracking website in 2020- it was popular because of this mapping feature that was taken from volunteer researchers without credit.
he rode that wave to make a name for himself, and rolled that into raising for a hardware ai start-up which again imo is copying https://github.com/BasedHardware my bet is that it turns out as badly as the other AI wearables and then he moves onto the next thing.
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i might be wrong and it turns out decent- he’s got a pretty good rep in the silicon valley scene, but i think he’s sus