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TL;DR
- Jony Ive has confirmed that he’s working with OpenAI’s Sam Altman on some kind of new AI-powered {hardware} machine.
- Ive was the lead designer for the early iterations of the iPhone throughout Jobs-era Apple.
- To date, the key AI units we’ve seen have failed miserably, such because the Humane Ai Pin and the Rabbit R1.
Up to now yr, we’ve seen a slew of units primarily based round generative AI that had been claimed to be “the subsequent huge factor.” The Humane Ai Pin and the Rabbit R1 are two important examples. Nevertheless, each failed miserably for myriad causes, with probably the most important motive being individuals don’t appear to need devoted {hardware} for AI providers — they only need to use their smartphones.
Regardless of this, we’ve realized in the present day that Jony Ive — the person most straight accountable for the designs of the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and extra Apple merchandise below Steve Jobs — is working with OpenAI’s Sam Altman on some kind of new AI-powered {hardware}. This was revealed in a profile on Ive in The New York Instances.
Beforehand, we had heard rumors that Ive and OpenAI had been working collectively on AI {hardware} that doesn’t appear like a cellphone. It’s assumed that ChatGPT would energy this machine, contemplating the ties to OpenAI. Nevertheless, that’s all we heard till in the present day’s affirmation of the partnership.
In keeping with the report, there are already 10 staff engaged on this undertaking and Ive is trying to elevate enterprise capital to help a brand new firm that will create the product. Resulting from Ive’s and Altman’s respective pedigrees, it’s anticipated the corporate might elevate $1 billion by the top of 2024.
Clearly, Ive is a tech business legend, and Altman is on his strategy to being talked about in the identical method as Jobs, Gates, and different tech titans. Nevertheless, one can’t assist however assume that it’ll take lightning in a bottle to tear individuals away from a smartphone and use AI-powered {hardware} as an alternative. As a result of if the {hardware} can’t substitute the smartphone, then individuals will simply proceed to make use of the smartphone.
Humane couldn’t do it, Rabbit couldn’t do it, so time will inform if Ive and Altman can do it.
