Prime Highlights:
OpenAI purchases Jony Ive-founded AI hardware company for $6.5 billion, plans revolutionary device
This will be a screenless, pocketable device that offers contextual awareness and it’s being positioned as one of your ‘three core devices,’ alongside you phone and laptop.
Key Facts:
The new AI device that has been launched is not a smartphone, wearable or AR phone but an unique companion which can improve the day to daily life of average consumers.
And OpenAI is planning to mass produce and ship 100 million units by 2027.
Key Background:
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (source: Sam Altman Twitter)Jony Ive with us$77. Jony Ive, best known for leading the design of iconic products such as the iPhone while at Apple, is now heading up OpenAI’s hardware and interactive experience initiatives to build a new category of AI-native computational devices that move beyond traditional screens.
The whatever-this-is won’t resemble any current phones or wearables. The compact, screen-free device is small enough to fit into a pocket or tuck subtly away in an office space. It is designed to be contextual aware equipped with sensors and cameras meaning that it will better understand the users environment, their daily activities etc.
~ Sam Altman THE THIRD CORE DEVICE FOR USERS Laptops, smartphones and CONTINUOUS AI Without the need of user engagement It hopes to provide a more natural and ambient interaction with AI, one that’s meant not feel as intrusive as spoken commands often can from voice-enabled devices—especially in shared public spaces.
OpenAI hopes to ship 100 million of these units and intends for mass production in 2027. That sound you hear is OpenAI signaling courtesy of our announcement that making your own AI come to life in extraordinarily weird ways for consumer hardware (summers 20xx-infinite) just got a little more concrete.
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