OpenAI is shopping for io, a {hardware} firm based by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, the 2 corporations introduced on Wednesday.
“We gathered collectively the perfect {hardware} and software program engineers, the perfect technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers and specialists in product growth and manufacturing,” Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned in a joint post. “Many people have labored intently for many years. The io staff, centered on creating 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.”