Singapore-based Brilliant is another example of how startups across the world are rushing to leverage generative artificial intelligence after OpenAI’s ChatGPT debuted to a media firestorm in November.
Brilliant Labs, the designer of an AI-powered mixed-reality gadget, has pulled in investors including Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer, and Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble, for its seed round.
The startup’s only product is a monocle-like device that retails for about a tenth of the price of Apple Inc.’s Vision Pro headset but operates in the same sphere — augmenting a view of the real world with additional information and functionality. The US$3 million ($4.0 million) round will help the company bring its second wearable to the market, it said in a statement Tuesday.
