The details come from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who reported on Wednesday. OpenAI’s first device is a smart speaker without a screen. It is shaped like a doughnut, roughly the size of a hockey puck. It runs on a battery, small enough to carry around the home in one hand. OpenAI has discussed a price of $300 to $400, and plans a 2027 release.
The design is the point. The circular device will have moving parts that shift on their own. They show when it is listening or responding, and make it feel more alive than a stationary speaker. It carries speaker grills, microphones, lights, a camera, and other sensors that feed what it sees back into the AI.
It works like ChatGPT’s voice mode, but with more advanced models and a memory. It learns about a user over time. That lets it tailor conversations and, OpenAI hopes, act more like a person than a gadget. Jony Ive’s LoveFrom studio designed it, the team behind the io startup OpenAI bought for $6.5bn last year.
The Apple problem
The gadget lands in the middle of a fight. Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging it stole trade secrets tied to hardware. OpenAI denies it, and late on Wednesday asked a judge to throw the case out. “OpenAI is building something entirely new and different from anything at Apple,” the filing said.
