A telephone without a screen propelled by AI? OpenAi wants to buy Jony Ive Startup

Openai has the leader vitola in the software industry with the focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and now the chatpt matrix also ambitions also takes muscle in the hardware universe. The American company would be weighing the acquisition of Io Products, the startup of Ia born the collaboration between Jony Ive, the one who was Apple design chief, and Sam Altman, CEO of Openai. According to The InformationOpenAi could put an offer of 500 million dollars on the table to take control of IO Products.

The Startup of Jony Ive and Sam Altman would currently have several technologies propelled by AI in the oven, including a revolutionary phone without screen and devices focused on use in smart homes. Io Products has denied, however, that he is working on a phone propelled by AI.

In September last year The New York Times He echoed for the first time of the new and ambitious projects of Jony Ive, famous for designing the iPhone, the iPad and other iconic Apple products. The former design of the Cupertino company confessed to the prestigious New York rotary He had forged an alliance with Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, to light a new device propelled by the AI ​​that aspired to be “socially less disruptive than the iPhone.”

Although very few details have transcended the new horn device, Ive and Altman would have secured the support of important investors (Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’s widow, for example) to get it forward.

The purchase of Io Products would help OpenAi strengthen its position in the AI ​​industry, where competition is increasingly fierce

If the agreement with IO Products will materialize eventually, orPenai would win not only to Startup technology but also his team of engineers.

The news of the possible purchase of IO Products by Openai emerges to the surface at a time when The competition in the AI ​​branch is intensifying significantly And not only because of the improved offer of “players” products and services already about known in this area of ​​activity such as Google and Meta, but also because of the frank entry of new actors such as Deepseek.

Jony Ive cut Amarras with Apple in 2019 and a year later the British origin designer lifted the curtain of his own design study: Lovefrom. Co -founded by IVE and the renowned designer specialized in the luxury industry Marc Newson, that design study, whose client porpholio includes brands such as Airbnb and Ferrari, would also be involved in the creation of the “gadgets” that IO Products currently has in portfolio. That Lovefrom takes part in IO Products is a detail in any way Baladí, because the study has the reputables of Apple’s ex -approvers as Tang Tan and Evans Hankey.

It is not the first time that the possibility of engendering that many have baptized as “the IPhone of the AI” is raised (which would be the ultimate goal of Io Products). Humane and Rabbit have already tried something similar with AI Pin and R1 respectively and came up with Bruces with failure, because they were not able to overshadow the multiple features hosted in the bowels of conventional smartphones (which seem today absolutely irreplaceable).