Apple, Jony Ive and OpenAI
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Did Sam Altman just figure out what AI's been missing? Or did he get locked into the very thinking he's spent his career avoiding?
OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive and Sam Altman's startup, io, which will lead creative and design work for OpenAI.
Well-funded and big-name partnerships often end in failure. And ex-Apple employees don’t have a great record of success.
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OpenAI and Jony Ive's vision for its AI device is a screenless companion that knows everything about you. Details leaked to the Wall Street Journal give us a clearer picture of OpenAI's acquisition of io,
Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are creating a mystery device for ChatGPT, sparking speculation, memes, and jokes.
A day later, Jony Ive and Sam Altman kicked down the door and told Google, “Hold my beer.”
From the beige boxes of the late ’90s to the scintillating aluminium and glass of today, I’ve seen our devices evolve from mere tools to extensions of ourselves. We’ve gone from lugging around chunky desktop towers to slipping elegant slabs of silicon into our back pockets.
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Investors were happy about the hefty returns they got from the sale of io to OpenAI.