OpenAI unites with Jony Ive in US$6.5bil deal to create AI devices


An undated handout pic of Ive (left) and Altman. OpenAI said it was buying io, a startup founded by Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of AI hardware. — LoveFrom via The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO: The rise of artificial intelligence has profoundly altered the technology world in recent years, upending how software is created, how people search for information, and how images and videos can be generated – all with a few prompts to a chatbot.

What the technology has yet to do, though, is find a preferred form in a physical, everyday gadget. AI largely remains the domain of an app on phones, despite efforts by startups and others to move it into devices.

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