OpenAI teams up with former Apple design chief Jony Ive as AI race heats up

Joining Apple in the 1990s, Ive became the chief design officer in 2015. He left the company in 2019. — AP

Jony Ive, a former Apple executive known for designing the iPhone, is joining forces with OpenAI, the San Francisco startup behind popular chatbot ChatGPT.

On Wednesday, OpenAI said it's buying io, an AI devices startup that Ive founded a year ago, for nearly US$6.5bil  (RM27.66bil) in an all-stock deal, the largest acquisition in OpenAI's history.