Jony Ive's AI Product 'Third Core Device' After MacBook and iPhone

[MacRumors]

Details have leaked about the device that OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI is acquiring io, the hardware-based AI startup co-created by Jony Ive, and the first product is one of a family of devices the company intends to launch.

Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed details about the project in an internal staff call reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, the device isn't a pair of glasses, given that Ive has been skeptical about building something you have to wear. It's not a phone either, since Ive and Altman want to help wean people off of screens.

Rather, it's described as a "third core device" after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. From the report:

The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one's pocket or on one's desk, and would be a third core device a person would put on their desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.

According to the WSJ report, Altman told OpenAI staff that stealth will be important for their ultimate success to avoid competitors copying the product before it's ready. Ive's team is said to have been in touch with suppliers who will be able to ship the device at scale.

According to Altman, OpenAI is "not going to ship 100 million devices literally on day one." But he believes the company will ship that amount of high-quality devices "faster than any company has ever shipped 100 million of something new before." The goal is to release the first device by late next year.

Ive gave Altman a prototype of the first device to take home to test, said the OpenAI CEO. "I've been able to live with it, and I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen," he said.

OpenAI's acquisition of io is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to be completed this summer. It is OpenAI's biggest acquisition to date, with the ChatGPT-maker reportedly paying $6.5 billion for io.

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[filmantopia]

They would be insane to hype it like this if it’s not half as good as the claim.

 

[germanbeer007]

so...these are three separate devices

 

[Onelifenofear]

Unless it's a tiny little AI robot I am not interested.

 

[Onelifenofear]

so...these are three separate devices

Well they are saying it's not a Laptop or Phone... it's something else you'd carry with you.

 

[byebyeapple]

Tim Apple won't be happy about this. How the turntables have turned. From being the innovator in the 2000s to becoming Nokia / BlackBerry / Microsoft (Vista) in the 2020s. It's probably over for Apple in 5-10 years. Hasta la vista baby!

 

[orbital~debris]

Big hype.

I genuinely hope they can deliver something outstanding and revolutionary.

After all, this could be the start of a brand new cycle, akin to Apple Computer.

 

[Godspeed8230]

Whatever the case may be, I genuinely hope Apple starts innovating again—and not just in name, but in substance. The iPhone 16e feels like a textbook marketing gimmick, and discontinuing the iPhone SE is a disappointing move for those who valued performance without the premium price tag.

And don’t even get me started on the whole Siri and "Apple Intelligence" debacle—it’s hard not to feel like the focus has completely shifted away from real user value to shareholder value.

At this point I won't be buying a new iPhone even if my old iPhone SE 2020 stops functioning properly.

 

[Onelifenofear]

I am imagining...
Small OpenAI powerd device with a 360 camera on the top and a speaker. You could set it down or wear it.

It knows where you are and what you are doing, it could interact with you as you doing something.

It could forward images and videos to your other devices / cast them to any screen.

 

[krakman]

I expect it will be thin, non upgradable and require numerous dongles to be of any use.

 

[rp2011]

I'm still waiting fot he iHat.

 

[SexExpert]

They would be insane to hype it like this if it’s not half as good as the claim.

Elon Musk has been hyping self-driving cars for going on ten years and we're still waiting, no reason why this would be any different.

According to Altman, OpenAI will ship 100 million devices "literally on day one."

This is hype to fuel a pump before OpenAI goes public.

 

[Shalev Lazarof]

It's wearable device probably, most of the time, a small squirreled pod with a camera/s, microphone/s and speaker, you can attach it to a necklace, earpiece, watch or dock at home/desk/wall etc... all designed with jony i've style

It's always connected with 24 hours of battery life and use openAI backend services for data input/output

That's my guess and i hope i am wrong... would love to be surprised

 

[the future]

I am imagining...
Small OpenAI powerd device with a 360 camera on the top and a speaker. You could set it down or wear it.

Except the report says you do not wear it. And if you put it in your pocket, neither camera nor microphones or speakers will be of any use.

This report is either wrong or genuinely confusing.

 

[batmccoy]

Sounds to me like it’s designed to work with Apple products on day one. It is Apple innovation.

 

[kolebee]

Altman is the biggest liar in tech right now, and everyone there knows it.

 

[555gallardo]

I have a strong feeling it might use MagSafe to physically connect to an iPhone. Overall though, Jony definitely knows what he's doing so this might be an actual Apple-level innovation coming up.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Edit: The Macrumors article is fixed now.

Macrumors needs to change the article. From the WSJ: "'We’re not going to ship 100 million devices literally on day one,' Altman said, predicting that OpenAI would ship that large quantity of high-quality devices 'faster than any company has ever shipped 100 million of something new before.'”

 

[phenste]

jokes aside, really cannot decide how I feel about this. there are so many use-cases for AI that I cannot stand; there are so many use-cases for AI that I think will greatly increase the productivity of folks that know how to intelligently use it. Apple seems to have been in a constant state of decline since Ive’s departure, and at the same time, Ive’s more garish tendencies (an obsession with thinness and general form over function) were always tempered by Steve (for proof of this, look to 2011-2019 Apple, and products such as the 2015 MacBook). I don’t know if Ive currently has anyone around him filling the same role as Steve; guess we’ll have to wait and see. could be the next Humane AI Pin, could be the next iPhone.

 

[3Gmatt]

“The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life”

On the face of it that seems impossible without deep integration into other people’s platforms, which won’t happen.

 

[SebCohen]

Mo' devices, mo' problems.

Not only that, instead of decreasing prices like we've normally experienced since the 90s, we're seeing a steep INCREASE in prices as the device complexity is increasing and functionality is expanding.

I'm at that stage of my life that I just long for a one device life.

 

[Trusteft]

I realize I might be in the tiny minority on this one, but how people are so willing to willingly share all that information with A.I. or "A.I.", have it basically spy on you at all times and share that info with whatever servers, your whole life just open for a company or a state.

It disgusts me.

 

[TheOldChevy]

Unless it's a tiny little AI robot I am not interested.

"able to rest in one's pocket" ? that would a a strange situation.

 

[contacos]

Sounds to me like it’s designed to work with Apple products on day one. It is Apple innovation.

Sounds to me that it's designed to being up their market value. So far I have not heard anything more than a pitch of what could be

 

[TheOldChevy]

Description sounds like a microphone with positioning ability. But why ?