OpenAI is planning to release a screenless speaker as its first hardware product, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The news comes just days after Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees, alleging misappropriation of its trade secrets to benefit the ChatGPT owner’s foray into consumer hardware, a dramatic escalation of already simmering tension between the two companies. The device could open a new line of revenue for IPO-bound OpenAI.

The AI companion will mark OpenAI’s first physical device.

OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era,…

And it’s working on even more hardware projects.