Details Leck of the ambitious Openai device from Jony Ive

After a age of the tech industry teebel, Openai officially built “IO”, the much-twisted startup, a AI device from the former Apple design guru Jony IVE and Openai boss Sam Altman. The price tag? 6.5 billion US dollars.

Openaai published a video this week in which I spoke in a general way about the IVE and Altman, but now there are still a few delicacies about what they actually cook.

And what do you plan with all the cash and brain performance? Well, the people with eagle eyes in the Washington Post discovered an internal chat between Sam Altman and Openai employees, in which he set a goal of shipping 100 million AI attendants.

Altman allegedly even told his team that the Openai device is “the chance to do the greatest thing we have ever done here as a company”.

To be clear, Altman has set this 100 million number as defined as possibly Goal. “We won't send 100 million devices on the first day,” he said. But in a flex that is pure Silicon Valley, he added that they had ever sent this 100 million mark “faster than any company before that” 100 million of something new “.

So what is this mysterious “companion”? The device is designed in such a way that it is completely aware of the surroundings of a user and even her “life”. While they mostly talked about a single device, Altman slipped that it could be more of a “family of devices”.

Jony Ive called it as “new design movement”. You can almost hear how the minimalist manifesto is designed.

But why the full acquisition? Didn't they just want to work together? Originally yes. It was the plan that IVES startup cooks and sells the hardware, with Openai delivering the brain. But it seems that the vision has grown. This is not just another accessory, you see.

Altman emphasized that the device will be a “central facet of the use of Openai”. He even said: “We were both enthusiastic about the idea that we should only send them new computers if they have subscribed to Chatgpt and you should use them.”

To be honest, you expect our current technology – our trustworthy laptops, the websites we search – not for the kind of AI experiences that you dream of. Altman was pretty blunt and said that the current use of AI “is not the science fiction dream of what AI could do to enable them in all types to which the models are able.”

So we know that it is not a smartphone. Altmans also put the Kibosh on glasses. And Jony Ive, well, he does not hurt himself to make another portable what makes sense in the face of his design.

The good news for the impatient among us (i.e. all in technology) is that this is not just vapourware. The IVE team has an actual prototype. Altman even brought one home to live with him. When we get one in the hands? Altmans reports a publication on late 2026.

Of course, Openai keeps the actual device under lock and key, but you can always rely on a few indications of the whispering of the supply chain. The constantly reliable (usually!) Apple Supply Chain Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thrown some alleged design details into the ring via social media.

Kuo assumes that it will be “a little bigger” than the humane Ai pin, but that it will look as compact and elegant as an iPod shuffle. And yes, as the Shuffle says Kuo doesn't say a screen.

According to Kuo, the device will use your phone and your computer to chat and use good old -fashioned microphones for your voice and cameras to see what is going on around you. Interestingly, he suggests that it is worn around the neck and necklace style instead of being cut like the AI ​​needle.

Kuo's crystal ball points to mass production in 2027, but he carefully adds a pinch of salt and notes that the final appearance could still change.

So the question remains the billion dollar (well, £ 5.1 billion): Will this Openai device be the next big thing we have been waiting for? Or will it be another noble-,-requested attempt to free yourself from the iron grip of the smartphone and to join the AI ​​pin in the great ideas that were not entirely wrong that it stacked it?

On the one hand, Altman is full of confidence. After he has lived with the prototype, he is in recording and said he believed that it will “be the coolest piece of technology that the world will ever see”.

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