OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the {hardware} startup co-founded by well-known Apple designer Jony Ive, from its web site and social media channels. The sudden change carefully follows their latest announcement of OpenAI’s practically $6.5 billion acquisition and plans to create devoted AI {hardware}.
OpenAI tells The Verge the deal continues to be occurring, however it scrubbed mentions attributable to a trademark lawsuit from Iyo, the listening to gadget startup spun out of Google’s moonshot manufacturing unit.
The announcement weblog publish and a nine-minute video that includes Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are not accessible. The weblog publish from Ive and Altman saying the deal mentioned, “The io group, targeted on growing merchandise that encourage, empower and allow, will now merge with OpenAI to work extra intimately with the analysis, engineering and product groups in San Francisco.”
OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wooden:
This web page is quickly down attributable to a court docket order following a trademark criticism from iyO about our use of the identify ‘io.’ We don’t agree with the criticism and are reviewing our choices.