David Hoang: Local LLMs and agents will spawn spiritual successors to IoT-era companies
davidhoang · x · 2026-10-04
David Hoang predicts that with embedded devices, local LLMs, and agents, we'll see spiritual successors to IoT-era companies. He points to two iconic New York companies whose early innovations will live on: littleBits (programmable electronics modules) and Electric Objects (digital art displays) — hardware-software-creativity hybrids that will find new heirs in the AI hardware era.
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