In a New York Times profile former Apple designer Jony Ive confirmed he was working on a hardware project with OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
A year after multiple publications reported Jony Ive was collaborating with Sam Altman on a hardware project, Ive himself as confirmed it in a profile in the New York Times. There aren’t a lot of details. He met Altman through Brian Chesky, CEO of AirBNB, and the project is being funded by Ive and the Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs company. The New York Times claims it could raise $1 billion in funding by the end of the year.
As for the device itself? Last year it was rumored to be inspired by touchscreen technology and the original iPhone, which makes sense given Tan and Hankey’s involvement. There’s still no timeline on when we’re learn more about this project, but the little information dropped in the New York Times sound very familiar to anyone following the AI hardware scene in the last year. > Mr. Altman and Mr. Ive talked about how generative A.I.
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