A secretive competition to pioneer a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence chatbots is getting a messy public airing as OpenAI fights a trademark dispute over its stealth hardware collaboration with legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive.

OpenAI scrubbed any mention of the $6.5 billion purchase of io, Jony Ive's startup that will manufacture ChatGPT hardware for the … The post ChatGPT hardware confirmed, as OpenAI closes $6.5B deal for Jony Ive’s startup appeared first on BGR.

OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famed former Apple designer Jony Ive, the company announced Wednesday. But it was careful to only refer to the startup as io Products Inc.