OpenAI is building a portable, screenless speaker pitched internally as "a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home." It'll do the usual smart-speaker things—control your appliances, play music, answer questions, handle messages—all running on ChatGPT. The catch is what OpenAI wants it to feel like.

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.

Is a HomePod with ‘personality’ what people really, really want?