Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur will.i.am has designed a three-wheeled electric vehicle that he describes as an AI-powered workspace tailored for modern urban life.
The musician, whose full name is William James Adams Jr., demonstrated the vehicle — called Trinity — at Nvidia’s annual developers conference in Silicon Valley.
The single-passenger electric vehicle allows a human to do the driving but is infused with an AI agent that acts as a virtual assistant for conversation-based collaborations on the move, will.i.am explained.
“When a human has an agent of their own, a company has a super employee,” he said of brainstorming and delegating tasks to Trinity AI agents conversationally while commuting.
“Their vehicle that got them to work is a part of their tool set; and it’s working in the parking lot while they work,” he added, referring to Trinity as “brains on wheels.”
The vehicle, designed to accelerate quickly from zero to 60 miles per hour, uses an Nvidia graphics processor to power built-in AI that can interpret and reason about the world around it, according to the startup.
Trinity is named for an alignment of human, vehicle, and agentic AI.
The vehicles are to be made in a Los Angeles facility that will also serve as a school for robotics and agentic AI systems.
An initial production run of 500 units is planned, with deliveries targeted to begin in August of next year. The company aims to keep the vehicle’s price below $30,000.
“I’m an artistic creator because of tech,” will.i.am told AFP.
“Creating with musical teams is great, but hopping into a different realm and being hyper creative with full-stack developers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, world builders — that is the ultimate level of creativity.”
Reflecting on the project, he said: “I was ambitious, audacious and a little bit of naive. That’s a good combination, because if you don’t have that little bit of naive and everything is sceptical, you probably wouldn’t take crazy risks.”
