Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we know what OpenAI and Jony Ive\u2019s first AI device won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
In court filings submitted this month, leaders from io \u2014 the consumer hardware team OpenAI recently acquired<\/a> from Jony Ive\u2019s design studio for $6.5 billion \u2014 testified that the first device they plan to release won\u2019t be an \u201cin-ear device\u201d or a \u201cwearable.\u201d They also say the AI device won\u2019t ship until \u201cat least\u201d 2026.<\/p>\n \u201dThe prototype Sam Altman referenced in the video<\/a> is at least a year away from being offered for sale,\u201d Tang Tan, io\u2019s chief hardware officer and a former Apple design leader, said in a June 16th declaration<\/a>. \u201cIts design is not yet finalized, but it is not an in-ear device, nor a wearable device.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor many months after its founding, io surveyed the existing commercial offerings and engaged in prototyping exercises, as it considered a broad range of form factors, including objects that were desktop-based and mobile, wireless and wired, wearable and portable,\u201d reads OpenAI\u2019s June 12th opposition to Iyo\u2019s lawsuit<\/a>. \u201cAs part of these early efforts, io purchased a wide range of earbuds, hearing aids, and at least 30 different headphone sets from a variety of different companies.\u201d (TechCrunch\u2019s Maxwell Zeff<\/a> first reported on the court documents.)<\/p>\n \u201cthanks but im working on something competitive so will respectfully pass!\u201d<\/p>\n While Tan\u2019s declaration states that io\u2019s first piece of hardware won\u2019t be an \u201cin-ear device,\u201d it\u2019s clear from the evidence submitted in the case that io and OpenAI have considered the category. In one email from late March, an io employee named Marwan Rammah told Tang<\/a> that they should consider buying 3D scans of human ears \u201cas a helpful starting point on ergonomics and HF.\u201d And in another email earlier that month, Altman responded to Iyo\u2019s offer to personally invest in the company by writing: \u201cthanks but im working on something competitive so will respectfully pass!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we know what OpenAI and Jony Ive\u2019s first AI device won\u2019t be.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,705,305,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-9641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-openai","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}