It’s been just over a year since OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company would build an AI-first device with the help of legendary Apple designer Jony Ive. Now we may have an idea of what it might look like.
Firm details about the device have been scant, but on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported, cited people familiar with the matter, what the device may look like: a “screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era.”
The device is meant to be “human-like” with smart speaker-like features that help control appliances in a user’s home, play media, respond to messages and answer queries by using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the people added.
The device’s AI capabilities could allow it to better interact with users on a personal level, according to the report. It will also become increasingly personalized and proactive over time as it draws on information like a users’ personal emails. Mechanical parts that move on their own also give users “a sense that it is alive and not just an object responding to commands,” the outlet reported.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
