OpenAI's First Hardware: Speaker, Smartphone
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- OpenAI is developing its first hardware devices, including a speaker and smartphone, per MacRumors.
- OpenAI's Sam Altman and Jony Ive lead the company's AI hardware effort, per Fortune, while OpenAI says it is "very interested" in building ChatGPT integrations for wearables, per CNET.
Why it matters: OpenAI is moving into consumer hardware — speakers, smartphones, and wearables — with Sam Altman and Jony Ive leading the effort. The hardware push puts the AI software maker in direct competition with established device companies for the first time.
