The portable smart speaker would learn users’ routines, access messages and personal information, control connected devices and converse naturally, as OpenAI seeks to establish a new hardware category that could eventually challenge the smartphone

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.