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$6.4B OpenAI Deal Brings Onboard ‘Greatest Designer’ & Apple Icon Jony Ive
OpenAI forms a new hardware division with the io team, led by Jony Ive, to develop AI-native devices, possibly launching a ...
Steve Jobs once called designer Jony Ive his 'spiritual partner' at Apple—OpenAI just bought his tech startup for $6.4 billion
Sam Altman and OpenAI announced a $6.4 billion deal on Wednesday to buy io, the AI hardware startup of Apple's former chief ...
OpenAI Acquires AI Devices Company Founded by iPhone Designer Jony Ive for $6.5 Billion
OpenAI is acquiring io, the product-development startup founded by Apple design guru Jony Ive, in a $6.5 billion deal.
Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive’s OpenAI deal
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock ...
OpenAI buys iPhone designer Jony Ive's hardware startup, names him creative head
With Ive leading design, OpenAI aims to pair the tech behind its ChatGPT chatbot with product design expertise that made the ...
OpenAI and Jony Ive’s AI super-gadget
Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are ...
OpenAI Buys Jony Ive's AI Startup to 'Completely Reimagine What It Means to Use a Computer'
OpenAI is acquiring io, the hardware-based AI startup co-created by Jony Ive, OpenAI announced today. Ive has been working ...
OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s hardware firm, io, to create AI devices
Stocked with ex-Apple talent, io, LoveFrom, and OpenAI are assembling to develop the future of AI products.
The life and rise of Jony Ive, the legendary Apple designer who has joined OpenAI
Jony Ive's career was mainly at Apple, designing products like the iPhone and Mac. Now he'll work at OpenAI, which bought his ...
I/O versus io: Google and OpenAI can’t stop messing with each other
The leaders of OpenAI and Google have been living rent-free in each other’s heads since ChatGPT caught the world by storm. Heading into this week’s I/O, Googlers were on edge about whether Sam Altman ...