{"id":28239,"date":"2025-05-21T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28239"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:26:14","slug":"openai-unites-with-jony-ive-in-6-5-billion-deal-to-create-a-i-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28239","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The rise of artificial intelligence has profoundly altered the technology world in recent years, upending how software is created, how people search for information<\/a>, and how images and videos can be generated \u2014 all with a few prompts to a chatbot.<\/p>\n

What the technology has yet to do, though, is find a preferred form in a physical, everyday gadget. A.I. largely remains the domain of an app on phones, despite efforts by start-ups<\/a> and others to move it into devices.<\/p>\n

Now OpenAI, the world\u2019s leading A.I. lab, is taking a crack at that riddle.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, said the company was paying $6.5 billion to buy io, a one-year-old start-up created by Jony Ive<\/a>, a former top Apple executive who designed the iPhone. The deal, which effectively unites Silicon Valley royalty, is intended to usher in what the two men call \u201ca new family of products\u201d for the age of artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is shorthand for a future technology that achieves human-level intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive. The deal for io is OpenAI\u2019s biggest acquisition.<\/span>Jason Henry for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The deal, which is OpenAI\u2019s biggest acquisition, will bring in Mr. Ive and his team of roughly 55 engineers, designers and researchers. They will assume creative and design responsibilities across OpenAI and build hardware that helps people better interact with the technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a joint interview, Mr. Ive and Mr. Altman declined to say what such devices could look like and how they might work, but they said they hoped to share details next year. Mr. Ive, 58, framed the ambitions as galactic, with the aim of creating \u201camazing products that elevate humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The rise of artificial intelligence has profoundly altered the technology world in recent years, upending how software is created, how people search for information, and how images and videos can be generated \u2014 all with a few prompts to a chatbot.What the technology has yet to do, though, is find a preferred form in a physical, everyday gadget. A.I. largely remains the domain of an app on phones, despite efforts by start-ups and others to move it into devices.Now OpenAI, the world\u2019s leading A.I. lab, is taking a crack at that riddle.On Wednesday, Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, said the company was paying $6.5 billion to buy io, a one-year-old start-up created by Jony Ive, a former top Apple executive who designed the iPhone. The deal, which effectively unites Silicon Valley royalty, is intended to usher in what the two men call \u201ca new family of products\u201d for the age of artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is shorthand for a future technology that achieves human-level intelligence.Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive. The deal for io is OpenAI\u2019s biggest acquisition.Jason Henry for The New York TimesThe deal, which is OpenAI\u2019s biggest acquisition, will bring in Mr. Ive and his team of roughly 55 engineers, designers and researchers. They will assume creative and design responsibilities across OpenAI and build hardware that helps people better interact with the technology.In a joint interview, Mr. Ive and Mr. Altman declined to say what such devices could look like and how they might work, but they said they hoped to share details next year. Mr. Ive, 58, framed the ambitions as galactic, with the aim of creating \u201camazing products that elevate humanity.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28241,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28242,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239\/revisions\/28242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}