Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and erstwhile Apple decorator Jony Ive person been keeping the finer details of the archetypal mysterious OpenAI hardware nether wraps, but it sounds similar they’ve settled connected a design. In an interrogation with Laurene Powell Jobs astatine Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day, they said they are presently prototyping the device, and erstwhile asked astir a timeframe, Ive said it could get successful “less than” 2 years. 

Little has been revealed truthful acold astir the OpenAI instrumentality successful development, but it’s rumored to beryllium screen-free and “roughly the size of a smartphone.”

Altman described the plan arsenic “simple and beauteous and playful,” adding that, “There was an earlier prototype that we were rather excited about, but I did not person immoderate feeling of, ‘I privation to prime up that happening and instrumentality a wound retired of it,’ and past yet we got determination each of a sudden.”

Ive likewise emphasized simplicity and whimsy, saying, “I emotion solutions that teeter connected appearing astir naive successful their simplicity, and I besides emotion incredibly intelligent, blase products that you privation to touch, and you consciousness nary intimidation, and you privation to usage astir carelessly, that you usage them astir without thought, that they’re conscionable tools.” 

Altman went connected to comment, “I anticipation that erstwhile radical spot it, they say, ‘That’s it!’,” to which Ive responded, “Yeah, they will.”