Here’s how OpenAI’s first AI hardware product can be different than Humane’s AI Pin, and why it might not even need Jony Ive to succeed.
This has been a busy week for OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Jony Ive. After all, the AI firm had to take down its page about io, Altman and Ive’s company that is currently developing a device that could mark the biggest product release in the industry since the iPhone in 2007.
While some people assumed that the partnership was already over, it was actually a trademark issue that forced OpenAI take down the page on its site:
This page is temporarily down due to a court order following a trademark complaint from iyO about our use of the name ‘io.’ We don’t agree with the complaint and are reviewing our options.
Then, a court filing from OpenAI revealed more details about this mysterious new product, which has previously been called a non-smartphone, and now a “non-wearable.” As detailed by my colleague Chris Smith, this device is “at least a year away” from being released, and it won’t be an in-ear device like the one iyO is taking preorders for.
