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Sir Jony Ive worked for Apple for 27 years and in that time, he was responsible for the design of the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. He left in 2019 and founded his own company called LoveFrom,
OpenAI forms a new hardware division with the io team, led by Jony Ive, to develop AI-native devices, possibly launching a voice-first product as early as 2026.
I really hope OpenAI's new hardware doesn't make me talk to myself in public.
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company on Wednesday, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Investors were happy about the hefty returns they got from the sale of io to OpenAI.
OpenAI is buying the AI device startup co-founded by former Apple veteran Jony Ive, joining forces with the legendary designer to make a push into hardware. The $6.5 billion-dollar deal is the largest in OpenAI's history.