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Jony Ive’s first OpenAI hardware device sounds rather like … a HomePad

Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are developing an AI hardware device that increasingly resembles a HomePad, according to a recent interview. The device, teased for over a year, is not expected to launch until 2026, and OpenAI remains vague about its final form.

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Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year.

OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a HomePad …

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