Jony Ive-designed ChatGPT prototype is ‘coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen’ – Sam Altman

OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive’s startup, io Products, for $6.5 billion, appointing the former Apple iPhone design chief as creative head to develop generative AI-focused ChatGPT devices. LoveFrom, Ive’s design firm post-Apple, has collaborated with OpenAI for two years on AI devices, navigating challenges like high computing demands that have tripped up startups like Humane’s AI Pin.
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With Ive leading design, OpenAI aims to pair the technology behind its popular ChatGPT chatbot with the product design expertise that made devices such as the iPhone bestsellers.
“The products that we’re using to deliver and connect us to unimaginable technology. They’re decades old, yeah, and so it’s just common sense to at least think surely there’s something beyond these legacy products we have,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Ive said in a video posted on OpenAI’s blog.
Altman said they had a prototype of a device without giving further details, but called it “the coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen.”
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It’s shares fell more than 2% on the news.
The iPhone maker has been slow to roll out Apple Intelligence, a set of features with access to ChatGPT, with several advanced AI tools available on competing Android smartphones.
“OpenAI is interested in owning the next hardware platform so they don’t have to sell their products through Apple iOS or Google’s Android,” D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria said. “This is the same ambition Meta has with the Quest goggles and Meta Ray Bans.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Can very late Apple, with an uninspiring, boring, dithering, CEO who, focused on the wrong things, completely missed the GenAI revolution, deploy its huge cash mountain in a desperate effort to catch up, or will it be left behind? If Apple were still leading, Jony Ive wouldn’t have lost interest (as have far too many) and would still be innovating there.
Blind, deaf, and dumb.

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