Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year.
OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a HomePad …
Apple’s upcoming ‘HomePad’
We’ve long been expecting Apple to launch a new smart home device combining a smart speaker with a display. Since that sounds rather like a combo HomePod and iPad, we’ve been referring to it as a HomePad (though one report suggested it may be branded a HomePod Touch).
Apple’s hope is that it will serve as a “command center for the home” with a combination of Apple apps, Apple Intelligence, and integration with HomeKit […] It will feature a square display that Bloomberg says is roughly 6 inches and “about the size of two iPhones side by side.”
