Hand-powered private AI, that makes users feel how hard it's thinking, launched in Europe

European startup Squeez Labs revealed CrankGPT, a private AI voice-based chatbot that aims to make AI usage cost-effective and less resource-intensive. CrankGPT has no batteries and only works when users manually rotate a pedal attached to it. Squeez said the pedal gets harder to rotate when CrankGPT thinks harder, like when it undertakes speech synthesis and LLM inference at once.