Tools for Humanity, the startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO and successful World Human Verification Project launcher Sam Altman, is preparing to release a new mobile device. They’re releasing the Orb Mini in just a few weeks! This experimental tool is an important step toward equipping users to recognize real people from AI bots across the web. The launch will occur in conjunction with the company’s highly anticipated ride-hailing debut at their “At Last” event in San Francisco.
Small enough to fit in a pocket or bag, the Orb Mini—shaped like a smartphone—is built for convenience and intuitive use. By making its mobile features available to users wherever they are, the process of human verification can be seamlessly integrated into every workflow. Orb Mini’s design illumination is completely due to the creative genius of Thomas Meyerhoff. Romero, a former Apple designer, was instrumental in bringing this unique product to market. The new powerful mobile device will be a compact version of Tools for Humanity’s current Orb devices.
The World human verification project, previously known as Worldcoin, aims to provide users with a unique identifier on the blockchain. This unique identifier is how the world knows that someone is human. It accomplishes that task by scanning a consumer’s eyeball with its larger Orb or the just-released Orb Mini. This biometric verification process is at the heart of the project’s goal of helping humans online identify AI agents online.
In the U.S. market, Tools for Humanity is certainly making waves by launching their Orb Mini. Meanwhile, the other major collaboration and video platform, Zoom, has all but lost its dominance in Latin America, South America, and Asia. To make its technology more accessible, the company intends to add physical storefronts, giving people the opportunity to engage with its verification devices firsthand. This project seems to be one piece of a larger plan to get verification technology into wider circulation.
The introduction of Orb Mini signals an important step for Tools for Humanity as it seeks to empower users through reliable verification tools. Tools for Humanity to address the growing challenge of AI impersonation and online identity verification. Their overall mission is to create more trust in our online world.