OpenAI is meeting with Jony Ive, ex-lead designer for the Apple iPhone, to discuss creating a revolutionary new portable AI device, which is being compared to the iPhone in terms of its potential impact on future technology. The project could receive $1 billion of funding from SoftBank. Because OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to create the world’s first consumer AI device, meetings have been taking place between Altman and Ive in San Francisco.
The device’s engineering and design details are unknown, but it needs to deliver an intuitive user interface for interacting with OpenAI’s current and future AI models. If OpenAI is successful, then it could yield a device with even greater societal impact than the iPhone had at beginning of the century. Right now, discussions are intense, but no deal has been finalized. As smartphone innovation slows, Altman and Ive are exploring new ways to fill that growing void by re-engineering OpenAI’s disruptive generative AI technology.
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