OpenAI, Jony Ive and iPhone
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Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are creating a mystery device for ChatGPT, sparking speculation, memes, and jokes.
OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two decades of Apple products.
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A report of collaboration between Jony Ive and OpenAI has sparked interest in a new AI device, set for mass production by 2027. The device, designed for ambient intelligence, will likely rely on smartphones for display and will be assembled in Vietnam to avoid Chinese manufacturing dependencies.
OpenAI is buying io, a hardware company founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and several other former engineers from his time there, including Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan.
It is tempting to see this week’s attempt by OpenAI to plant its flag in the consumer hardware business as a similar challenge to another tech empire: Apple. As he announced the purchase of io, a tech hardware start-up co-founded by Jony Ive,