OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable

Jony Ive onstage astatine the Code Conference successful 2022.

Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we cognize what OpenAI and Jony Ive's archetypal AI instrumentality won't be.

In tribunal filings submitted this month, leaders from io - the user hardware squad OpenAI recently acquired from Jony Ive's plan workplace for $6.5 cardinal - testified that the archetypal instrumentality they program to merchandise won't beryllium an "in-ear device" oregon a "wearable." They besides accidental the AI instrumentality won't vessel until "at least" 2026.

"The prototype Sam Altman referenced in the video is astatine slightest a twelvemonth distant from being offered for sale," Tang Tan, io's main hardware serviceman and a erstwhile Apple plan leader, said successful a June 16th declaration. "Its plan is not yet finalized, but it is not an in-ear device, nor a wearable device."

Over the weekend, OpenAI was forced to region nationalist references to the io brand (which stands for "input/output") owed to a impermanent restraining bid that was granted connected behalf of an audio instrumentality startup called Iyo. To enactment its lawsuit that OpenAI willfully infringed connected its trademark, Iyo provides emails showing that leaders from io and OpenAI, including CEO Sam Altman, knew astir its beingness and adjacent asked to demo the merchandise - a yet-to-be-released, in-ear headphone bil …

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