"AI-powered app development is really taking off, and smartphone maker Nothing seems intent on capitalizing on the bandwagon: the company on Monday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps. Currently all Playground lets you build are widgets, like a flight tracker, a next meeting brief, or a virtual pet, from scratch using text prompts, or customize an existing app on the Essential Apps platform to your purposes."
"Something that has always bothered me is why we aren't improving software? A lot of people look at what big companies like Apple do, and follow that because that is the safer path. I think software iteration is very slow," Pei said. "With breakthroughs in AI, we believe that operating systems will change and become more personal. Our devices have so much context on us, but that is not being leveraged right now," he added."
Playground is an AI tool that creates and deploys widget-style apps from simple text prompts to a platform called Essential Apps. Users can build widgets like flight trackers, meeting briefs, or virtual pets, or customize existing Essential Apps; technical users can edit code to fine-tune behavior. Nothing currently prevents developers from building full-screen apps because the technology is not yet mature. Nothing recently raised $200 million and aims to build an AI-powered operating system and devices. The company has released one AI-enabled app, Essential Space, which offers screenshot sharing, voice notes, and meeting transcription, though many mobile OSes already provide similar features.
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