OpenAI, Jony Ive
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Jony Ive's career was mainly at Apple, designing products like the iPhone and Mac. Now he'll work at OpenAI, which bought his AI device startup io.
OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive and Sam Altman's startup, io, which will lead creative and design work for OpenAI.
With Ive leading design, OpenAI aims to pair the tech behind its ChatGPT chatbot with product design expertise that made the iPhone a bestseller.
Jony Ive, the famed designer behind iconic Apple products, will join OpenAI to create devices with generative artificial intelligence capability.
OpenAI has announced the acquisition of former iPhone designer Jony Ive’s AI devices startup io in a deal worth $6.5 billion.
OpenAI’s CEO believes Apple’s co-founder would have been “‘damn proud’ of Ive’s latest move”. He may be right.
- This March 19, 1999 file photo shows Jonathan Ive, left, Apple Computer's vice president of design, and Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of engineering, posing behind five
OpenAI is buying the AI device startup co-founded by former Apple veteran Jony Ive, joining forces with the legendary designer to make a push into hardware. The $6.5 billion-dollar deal is the largest in OpenAI's history.