AI, Jony Ive and Sam Altman
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OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive and Sam Altman's startup, io, which will lead creative and design work for OpenAI.
Altman and Ive announced OpenAI’s acquisition of Ive’s io in a statement Wednesday, with the deal valued at roughly $6.5 billion after OpenAI acquired 23% of io in a partnership deal in 2024.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Jony Ive "the greatest designer in the world" on Wednesday after announcing his company's plan to buy Ive's artificial intelligence device startup io, in a deal worth $6.4 billion.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Apple's ex-design chief Jony Ive announced a new company called io. Here's what we know about io's first AI product.
Apple designer Jony Ive's AI hardware startup, IO, in a deal worth nearly $6.5 billion. Ive previously worked with Sam Altman.
OpenAI forms a new hardware division with the io team, led by Jony Ive, to develop AI-native devices, possibly launching a voice-first product as early as 2026.
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company on Wednesday, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Investors were happy about the hefty returns they got from the sale of io to OpenAI.
I really hope OpenAI's new hardware doesn't make me talk to myself in public.