Will.i.Am Creates An Electric Tricycle

TL;DR

Will.i.Am unveiled an AI-powered electric tricycle called the Trinity, continuing a 15-year streak of failed tech ventures.

Key Points

• 1.Will.i.Am has a long history of failed tech products. His company IM Plus launched the $300 Photo Social (discontinued in under a year), the $400 Pulse smartwatch (panned by Gizmodo as impressively bad), and a Siri-like smartwatch called Dial — all commercial failures despite raising over $100 million in VC funding.
• 2.The Trinity is an AI-powered electric tricycle unveiled in January 2026. Built from a CGI-heavy promotional video, it features an Nvidia Spark GPU that locally runs open-source LLMs like Meta's Llama, letting riders interact via voice commands or a touchscreen — which Will.i.Am calls an 'agentic micromobility' experience.
• 3.Will.i.Am presented the Trinity at Nvidia's GTC conference in March 2026. He pitched it as solving AI and job creation simultaneously, describing the GPU as the vehicle's 'AI brain' and claiming it handles tasks like emailing, calendaring, and note-digestion while commuting.
• 4.Mass production of the Trinity is financially implausible. Will.i.Am self-funded only the prototype and plans a Kickstarter campaign to build a factory in Boyle Heights, LA — despite factory costs running into hundreds of millions, making actual production highly unlikely.
• 5.Will.i.Am's broader tech persona includes Intel, AI apps, and university teaching. Intel made him Director of Creative Innovation as a brand ambassador stunt; he launched FYI.ai in 2023 as an AI productivity app; and he now teaches an 'agentic self' AI course at Arizona State University.