‘Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive in consultation with OpenAI about hardware’

Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is reportedly in talks with OpenAI about designing hardware with integrated artificial intelligence. Details about what such a device should look like or what its status is are not yet known.

Two sources of The Information say that Jony Ive has or has had conversations with Sam Altman, the boss of ChatGPT maker OpenAI. According to the site’s sources, these conversations are about possible ‘hardware with a core of artificial intelligence’, but no details are known about what that means in practice. It is therefore not clear whether such a product would be made by OpenAI or a third party, or by Jony Ive’s own company LoveFrom.