The man behind Android says A.I. is the next major operating system

The heart of Home is Essential's operating system, Ambient OS. Rubin didn't share much about the new software, but he did share his thoughts about how AI will become the next big operating system. It's a slightly different AI than we see today. Today we see pattern matching and vision tricks and automation for self-driving cars and assistants like Siri or Google Assistant, but I think there's a thing after that that will coalesce into something that's more of an operating platform." Rubin knows his own hardware company can't create the master AI platform alone, which is why his incubator Playground is so important. "We're investing in hardware companies because we think they're essential in training AI," Rubin said. "One of our invested companies is called Light House.