Mobile World Congress: It’s MWC 2024, an edition more focused on technology than on mobile phones | Technology

Robots, “flying” cars, developments with AI in mobile phones or transparent and flexible screens. These are some of the curiosities of Mobile World Congress 2024, focused this year more on technology around telephony than on mobile phones themselves. As predicted by Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA, this edition was different due to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application with 5G and platforms, “these three elements can work together to provide much better service or better problem resolution.” the consumer,” said the director. And visitors to the show more than proved it by interacting with AMECA, the most advanced brain robot to date with a GPT-4 language model from OpenAI, and talking with AI Pin from Humane, a device with which you can wear your clothes. which you can ask and give instructions to a virtual assistant using voice and gestures. But what caught all eyes at the show this year was the first flying car. Made in California (USA), it is 100% electric and has a range of 320 kilometers on the road and 170 kilometers by plane. Its price: $300,000.

An overview of the most significant technological innovations of MWC 2024 in the video which accompanies this piece.

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