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OpenAI Fast-Tracking AI Phone for 2027 Launch, Says Kuo
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BarrettF77
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mistymac
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At this point (I don't see companies backing off 'AI' outside of dropping the ridiculous marketing push since its back fired, machine learning is and has been here to stay) as long as things are truly anonymized, and there are real privacy protections in place then I'm fine with 'AI' for the most part and companies training it with said data. The chatbot stuff is neat, there's a lot of neat applications of this newer stuff and educational potential as well.
I incredibly doubt whatever OpenAI offers will be something trustworthy in terms of privacy in the way I could trust something from Apple. Innovative? Maybe. I'm definitely curious & interested to see where this technology and its applications into consumer goods goes. More specified chips for 'AI' tasks and figuring out how to shrink its need for so much memory could make for some wild devices and experiences eventually. That said, don't get me wrong, I'm with most people on this stuff... sick of the slop, hype, etc. Also a little spooked by how much easier this stuff is making it for bad actors to trick and harm people. So privacy and some more focus on guardrails would be nice.
Rychiar
macrumors 601
wanha
macrumors 68030
they chickened out once they discovered they were stuck in the chicken-and-egg dilemma of not having enough users or developers and you need one to get the other. They spent untold sums of money getting developers to port their apps to Windows Phone but even that wasn't enough to make a dent in the market.
While I'd love to see another OS on the market, it's hard to envision a new platform being able to make much headway in this duopoly because of all the existing network effects Android and iOS enjoy.
Will Co
macrumors 6502a
Now there's a thought. An open source operating system that can run on a wide variety of hardware. The Linux of the mobile device world, if you will. Why hasn't that happened? Maybe it has and I just don't know about it.
roklanhavok
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wanha
macrumors 68030
I can envision a future where I let AI handle certain tasks for me, but I definitely do not want an AI-first phone where everything needs to go via the LLM. Having apps is actually awesome even though the current app economy of IAPs everywhere sucks.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
Should do about as well as the ESPN phone and the Facebook phone.
awesomecat
macrumors newbie
Why would you want to type out everything to an AI chatbot when i can just click a few buttons to do it faster?
zorinlynx
macrumors G3
It's rare that I see a product announced that is so vile, I wouldn't use it even if I were paid $50,000 to do so.
NT1440
macrumors P6
😂😂😂
A company that burns billions of dollars in revenue, to then lose billions more, is going to jump into a market that costs yet billions more in capex buildup is going to manufacture and move 30 million units…okay.
SoftBank already has to raise funds to continue to keep OpenAI afloat. This is not going to end well for them when this finally collapses.
A company that burns billions of dollars in revenue, to then lose billions more, is going to jump into a market that costs yet billions more in capex buildup is going to manufacture and move 30 million units…okay.
SoftBank already has to raise funds to continue to keep OpenAI afloat. This is not going to end well for them when this finally collapses.
groove-agent
macrumors 68020
I'm trying to figure out why Open AI chatGPT can't create video on a paid subscription when others are creating full length video.
groove-agent
macrumors 68020
IMO what's worse is when ou're trying to do things with SIri/ AI while driving and each simple command you give it replies "you have to unlock your iPhone first". Then you have the choice of doing nothing on the long drive home or risking distracted driving.
Art Mark
macrumors 6502a
I think we can be cynical and suspicious here...I am in no hurry to hand over EVERYTHING that's on my phone, or might be, to AI. I don't think the guardrails are truly there for our good. It seems when I talk to tech folks working in AI, the 'guardrails' are more about us not knowing what AI can do or isn't doing right now. When you add in the grifter/con like people involved in AI at the top tiers, you have to roll your eyes at their pronouncements and products.
groove-agent
macrumors 68020
I think another Smartphone would be good for competition, but not another Android phone.
Microsoft should have kept up with the Windows phone instead of quitting like they usually do.
Microsoft should have kept up with the Windows phone instead of quitting like they usually do.
I think at some point in the AI future we'll stop calling them "smartphones" and instead we'll start calling us "dumb humans" (which we totally are, me included of course).
CapitalIdea
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jonnysods
macrumors G3
CheesePuff
macrumors 68000
I wouldn't be so sure - GPT-5.5 while the version does not imply is a whole new model with new training and it is a huge improvement over 5.4 and for me over Gemini 3.1 Pro and even Opus 4.7. I have been using it with Codex the past week and it's token usage is far less then Opus 4.7 with equal or even better output. Very impressed, and I've been a Claude guy for the past year
I have a feeling all that exists or will ever exist is the rumor, for exactly this reason.
I will be shocked if even they can successfully launch a third smartphone platform in the current environment.
They are working on something, but I doubt it's a smartphone in any sense that would truly compete directly against the iPhone. But it sounds good to investors, apparently.
