Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur will.i.am has unveiled a three-wheeled electric vehicle that transforms your commute into a mobile AI-powered workspace.
The musician, whose full name is William James Adams Jr., introduced the vehicle — called Trinity — with a live demonstration at Nvidia’s annual developers conference in Silicon Valley.
The single-passenger electric vehicle keeps the human in the driver’s seat while integrating an AI agent that serves as a virtual assistant, enabling conversation-based collaboration, brainstorming, and task delegation while 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 can accelerate quickly from zero to 60 miles per hour and is powered by an Nvidia graphics processor that drives its onboard AI capable of interpreting and reasoning about the surrounding world, according to the startup.
Trinity takes its name from the fusion of human, vehicle, and agentic AI.
Manufacturing will occur at a dedicated Los Angeles facility that will double as a training school for robotics and agentic AI systems.
The company plans to produce an initial batch of 500 units, with first deliveries expected to start in August of next year.
Trinity is targeted to retail 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.”
