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.

Jony Ive https://9to5mac.com/guides/jony-ive/ and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/22/the-io-device-is-mysterious-and-important-what-could-it-be/ 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 https://9to5mac.com/guides/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 https://9to5mac.com/guides/homepad/ …