Jony Ive has, for the first time, confirmed he is working with OpenAI on a new mobile hardware product. The famed former chief design officer at Apple has been notoriously tight-lipped about ongoing projects at his new LoveFrom agency, so it is good to hear that he is again hoping to contribute his design flair to the world of tech. While Ive’s profile piece in The New York Times is quite lengthy, and the result of a two-day interview process, details about the OpenAI device remain very thin on the ground.
We aren’t surprised that this particular product design collaboration has come about. This time last year it emerged that Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman were having conversations about creating hardware for artificial intelligence. At the time, unnamed sources also indicated that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had also been involved in the talks.
