Ex-Apple designer Ive, OpenAI's Altman discuss AI hardware -The
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[September 27, 2023]
(Reuters) - Apple's former design chief, Jony Ive, and OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman have been discussing building a new artificial intelligence
(AI) hardware device, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two
people familiar with the matter.
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is not clear what the device would be or if they will decide to
build it but the duo have been discussing what new hardware for
the AI age could look like, the report said.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has also been involved in some
aspects of the conversation but it is unclear if he will remain
involved, the report said.
OpenAI and SoftBank did not immediately respond to a Reuters
request for comment. Ive and LoveFrom could not be reached for
comment.
Ive was a close creative collaborator with Apple co-founder
Steve Jobs. He spent more than two decades at the tech giant and
led the design of the candy-colored iMacs that helped Apple
re-emerge from near death in the 1990s as well as the design of
the iPhone.
Ive left Apple in 2019 and subsequently co-founded design firm
LoveFrom with fellow designer Marc Newson. LoveFrom, which
describes itself as a "creative collective", has clients such as
Airbnb and Ferrari.
OpenAI, the parent company of the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT,
has seen phenomenal success that has prompted companies such as
Microsoft and Alphabet to pour billions of dollars into
investing in the technology.
(Reporting by Evelyn Nikhila S in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio
D'Souza)
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