The Openai company has taken another step to compete with Apple, Google or Meta. But not in the field of chatbots or language models, but in the wearable and home devices market. The iPhone designer, Jony Iveyou will also create the AI devicesunder the mark of Sam Altman.
OpenAi has bought IO, the Jony Ive hardware company for 6,500 million dollars. Although the important thing is what this association means. OpenAI sells her software to hardware manufacturers, but now she is also going to sell her own devices. And according to Sam Altman, they will be revolutionaries.
The announcement has also been confirmed that Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been collaborating in a product for two years That, according to the OpenAi CEO: «He captured our imagination. Recently, Jony first gave me one of the prototypes of the device to take it home, and I think it is the most great technological piece that the world will ever see.»
Jony Ive and Sam Altman, an unpredictable duo
No one escapes that Apple sells part of its products only for the brand. AND That brand image was created by Jony Ive. Steve Jobs was the visionary, Tim Cook the perfect businessman, but the image of the iPhone, of the iPad, of all Apple products, including software, is the work of this British designer.
Throughout his 27 years in the company of the Bite apple, Jony Ive designed the MacBook Pro, IMAC, Macbook Air, Mac Mini, iPod, Ipod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, Apple Watch and IOS.
He left in 2020, to form his own design company, LoveFrom. He is also the founder of IO, a AI hardware company that created together with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.
OpenAi has paid 6,500 million dollars per IO. His 55 employees, along with all his founders less Jony Ive, will join Sam Altman’s company.
The iPhone designer will continue to maintain independence with Lovefrom, but You will work for OpenAI designing all the hardware and, eye, also the company’s software. If the chatgpt interface seems ugly, it will soon change after receiving Jony Ive’s genius brushstrokes.
«We have gathered the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physical, scientists, researchers and experts in product development and manufacturing, say Jony Ive and Sam Altman in the joint statement:
«Many of us have worked closely for decades. The IO team, focused on the development of products that inspire, enhance and enable, will now merge with Openai to work more intimately with the research, engineering and product teams of San Francisco.»
«Artificial intelligence is an incredible technology, but large tools require a job at the intersection of technology, design and understanding of people and the world,» says Openai CEO. «No one can do this as Jony and his team. The amount of care they put in each aspect of the process is extraordinary.»
Altman has confirmed that Your first AI device will not be an iphone substitute: «In the same way that the smartphone did not disappear the laptop, I do not think our first product will make the smartphone disappear. It is a totally new type of thing.»
Jony Ive will design Openai products, and are not cut: they will be revolutionaries. AI cannot contain «old» devices, such as a mobile or a PC, according to them.
Others, such as Rabbit or Humane have already tried, and the failure has been total. Jony Ive has called them «very poor products», ensuring that «there has been an absence of new ways of thinking expressed in products.» We will see what surprises us …
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