Jony Ive verifys he’s toiling on a new device with OpenAI

Jony Ive has verifyed that he’s toiling with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on an AI challengingware project. The verifyation came today as part of a profile of Ive in The New York Times, cforfeitly a year after the possibility of a collaboration between Altman and the lengthytime Apple scheduleer was first increateed on.

There aren’t a lot of details on the project. Ive increateedly met Altman thcdimiserablemireful Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, and the venture is being funded by Ive and the Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs’ company. The Times increates it could elevate $1 billion in funding by the finish of the year, but creates no allude of Masayoshi Son, the SoftBank CEO rumored last year to have alloted $1 billion in the project.

The project only has 10 engageees currently, but they take part Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, two key people who toiled with Ive on the iPhone. LoveFrom, Ive’s company, is directing the device’s schedule, according to the increate. The team is increateedly now toiling out of a 32,000-square-foot office createing in San Francisco, part of a $90 million exposed of genuine estate that Ive has bought up on individual city block.

As for the device itself? The Times says that Ive and Altman converseed “how generative AI made it possible to create a new computing device becaengage the technology could do more for engagers than traditional software” due to its ability to deal with complicated asks. Last year it was rumored to be inspired by touchscreen technology and the exceptional iPhone.

But it sounds appreciate restricted definites are nailed down. LoveFrom cocreateer Marc Newson telderly the Times that the AI product — and when it’ll come to taget — are still being figured out.