The president says voice will replace typing and the hardware is coming ‘soon,’ while brushing off Apple’s lawsuit: “we have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.”
OpenAI is not building one gadget but several, its president Greg Brockman has confirmed, describing “a family of devices” in an interview that put the company’s long-rumoured hardware ambitions on the record.
Speaking to the journalist Joanna Stern, Brockman said the products are coming “soon,” without offering a date.The confirmation ends little suspense but adds some shape.
OpenAI has spent a year assembling a hardware effort around Jony Ive, the former Apple design chief whose screen-free speaker has already leaked, and Brockman’s “family” language suggests the speaker is only the first of a range.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!OpenAI bought its way into the effort. It acquired Ive’s hardware startup, io, in a multibillion-dollar deal, folding a team of former Apple engineers into a company that had never shipped a physical product, which is part of what Apple’s lawsuit is now about. The deal made OpenAI a hardware company overnight, at least on paper.
