OpenAI’s initial hardware product is planned to be a doughnut-shaped, battery-powered device with moving parts that can be easily carried around in one hand, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.
The AI start-up has been aggressively pushing ahead with plans to create a line of hardware, a strategy that Apple has targeted with a lawsuit alleging that OpenAI, which has hired numerous former Apple staff, stole its proprietary ideas.
OpenAI carried out an internal investigation into whether its hardware initiative had used proprietary information from Apple, and found that it hadn’t, the Bloomberg report cited unnamed people as saying.
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