Openai iO is buying, an AI device startup installed by iPhone designer Jony Ive, in $ 6.5 billion all-stock deal As the Openai AI-operated equipment tries to define the market. Openai won a 23% stake in IO last year and invested in startups at that time.
Is acquisition The largest in the history of openi And was announced on Wednesday, a few weeks after the OpenAI agreed to buy A-assisted coding tool windsurf $ 3 billionThe purpose of this deal is to spark a new generation of products for the future where AI technology attains or crosses human intelligence.
As part of the acquisition, Ive and their team About 55 Engineers, designers and researchers will include Openai in creative and design roles that allow them to shape AI devices for consumers. They will build hardware that helps people interact more easily, without web browser or without going to an app on their phone.
Johnny Ive. Photo by Lia Toby/BFC/Getty Image
Openai CEO Sam Altman and IVE are collaborating to transfer people beyond screen and other types of AI-operated equipment on a secret project for two years. The Wall Street Journal Reports states that both are considering AI headphones and other gadgets with cameras.
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In A release video Announcing the deal on Wednesday, Altmann “never found the deepest thinker of any person,” and Ive appreciated Altman, called him a “visionary”.
“I think we have the opportunity here that we fully reuse what it means to use the computer,” Altman said in the video.
While both were quiet about a family details of new AI products, they said that the products were groundbreaking and would arrive for some time next year. ALTMAN went to call an anonymous product, which he has “ever seen the world” interacted with the best pieces of technology.
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Ive started working in Apple In 1992 And played an important role in designing iPhone, iPad, IMAC and other Apple products. He left to create his own design firm, Lufrom in 2019, which has since landed. deal With Airbnb and Ferrari.
Altman has first discovered AI devices. In 2020, he Investment In the Startup Human, which developed an AI pin that fell flat with consumers due to overheating issues and a leggings interface.
Openai had stated last month that Chatgpt had 500 million global weekly users.
Openai iO is buying, an AI device startup installed by iPhone designer Jony Ive, in $ 6.5 billion all-stock deal As the Openai AI-operated equipment tries to define the market. Openai won a 23% stake in IO last year and invested in startups at that time.
Is acquisition The largest in the history of openi And was announced on Wednesday, a few weeks after the OpenAI agreed to buy A-assisted coding tool windsurf $ 3 billionThe purpose of this deal is to spark a new generation of products for the future where AI technology attains or crosses human intelligence.
As part of the acquisition, Ive and their team About 55 Engineers, designers and researchers will include Openai in creative and design roles that allow them to shape AI devices for consumers. They will build hardware that helps people interact more easily, without web browser or without going to an app on their phone.
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