Our 5 Best Theories About OpenAI and Jony Ive’s Mysterious AI Gadget

AI gadgets are back, baby! Or that’s what Jony Ive and Sam Altman hope. Well, they may not really hope they’re back as much as they hope they’re not completely and utterly cooked. ICYMI, Ive and OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced in a post-Google I/O keynote bombshell that they are teaming up under a new company called, “io” to make, um… something? Whatever it is, it’s apparently worth $6.5 billion of OpenAI’s cold, hard AI revolution money. We truly, genuinely, do not know what the two are making together outside of the fact that it’s going to be a piece of hardware (or potentially many), and it will be centered on AI (duh). But just because we can’t answer the burning question of what this thing is yet doesn’t mean we don’t have some clues. For your speculative pleasure, I’ve gone ahead and aggregated the best hints we have so far, Pepe Silvia-style, to bring us at least one baby step closer to hazarding a guess. Here are the tastiest “phone-killing” AI gadget rumors we have so far ... Read full article.