Despite facing its second trade secret theft lawsuit in a little more than a year over its hardware ambitions, OpenAI still plans to unveil its first product this year and release it in 2027, Bloomberg reports. Here are the details.
First product announcement still planned for 2026
Last Friday, Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company and several former Apple employees of stealing confidential hardware information to advance OpenAI’s consumer-device ambitions.
The company details what it describes as “a pattern of theft of Apple’s trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple,” adding that “such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership.”
The lawsuit added to OpenAI’s growing legal troubles over its hardware ambitions, following a separate case brought by startup iyO. Initially focused on branding, the lawsuit was later amended to include allegations of trade secret misappropriation.
