Andy Rubin was one of the key architects of Android and worked on it until 2013. He left Google in 2014. Rubin was believed to have left Google because Android got so big there was not much of an innovation challenge.

Apparently he has been recently seen trying to recruit people to his new smartphone project. Rubin runs a venture capital fund Playground Ventures with $300 million in the bank. It is not clear if he is building the company himself or wants to financially support and mentor it.

In October Rubin was asked what he was going to do with his life after Android and he wondered if he was going to fight for a percentage of the market or make 10 more Androids.

Rubin might be looking to get more AI onto smartphones. He was quoted as saying that Mobile isn’t going away and in the future some form of AI will be the next computing platform.