OpenAI's first consumer hardware product is reported to be a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as a humanlike AI companion for the home, with a camera and sensors, a rechargeable battery, self-moving mechanical parts, and GPT-Live voice technology. OpenAI aims to unveil it in 2026 and release it in 2027. The reporting rests on unnamed sources, and OpenAI declined to comment.

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

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