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OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices
NY Times ^ | San Francisco May 21, 2025 | By Mike Isaac and Cade Metz

Posted on 05/25/2025 9:08:55 AM PDT by dennisw

OpenAI said it was buying IO, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.

The deal, which is OpenAI’s biggest acquisition, will bring in Mr. Ive and his team of roughly 55 engineers and researchers. LoveFrom will assume creative and design responsibilities across OpenAI and build hardware that helps people better interact with the technology. In a joint interview, Mr. Ive and Mr. Altman declined to say what such devices could look like and how they might work, but they said they hoped to share details next year. Mr. Ive, 58, framed the ambitions as galactic, with the aim of creating “amazing products that elevate humanity.” “We’ve been waiting for the next big thing for 20 years,” Mr. Altman, 40, added. “We want to bring people something beyond the legacy products we’ve been using for so long.”

What the technology has yet to do, though, is find a preferred form in a physical, everyday gadget. A.I. largely remains the domain of an app on phones, despite efforts by start-ups and others to move it into devices. Now OpenAI, the world’s leading A.I. lab, is taking a crack at that riddle.

On Wednesday, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said the company was paying $6.5 billion to buy IO, a one-year-old start-up created by Jony Ive, a former top Apple executive who designed the iPhone.

The all-stock deal, which effectively unites Silicon Valley royalty, is intended to usher in what the two men call “a new family of products” for the age of artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is shorthand for a future technology that achieves human-level intelligence.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: ai

1 posted on 05/25/2025 9:08:55 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

full version>>>> https://archive.is/VPext#selection-4667.0-4685.173 Archived


2 posted on 05/25/2025 9:09:43 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: dennisw

Paying 6.5 billion for a one year old startup is ridiculous. Open AI is buying Jonny Ive’s name and Apple reputation. Now Ives team of obsessive compulsives must design AI wearables and devices. AI devices the size of an iPhone I suppose.

What AI there is in iPhone 16, mostly involves working with/ outsourcing to AI data centers in the so called cloud.


3 posted on 05/25/2025 9:15:33 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: dennisw

“amazing products that enslave humanity.”

OpenAI Plan To Ship 100 Million AI Devices That Documents Your Entire Life.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4318862/posts


4 posted on 05/25/2025 9:16:06 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: dennisw

Call me a luddite, but I predict that AI will be a massive end times disaster.


5 posted on 05/25/2025 9:21:05 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Flaming Conservative

I concur.


6 posted on 05/25/2025 9:27:08 AM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: dennisw

Unless they bring back a Blackberry physical keyboard I’m not interested


7 posted on 05/25/2025 9:31:30 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Flaming Conservative

I agree, AI will be the end of us all


8 posted on 05/25/2025 9:32:15 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: waterhill; Flaming Conservative

I also concur. I am not going to shy away from the label Luddite. I am going to wear it proudly and be proactive because I also see the writing on the wall.


9 posted on 05/25/2025 9:35:09 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

“amazing products that enslave humanity.”

Signs and Wonders?

Deceptive Signs and Wonders!

Over the years, I have missed new technology a couple of times. The advent of fiber optic cable, went right past me, I could not imagine the scale that it was implemented on. (my mistake)

I love technology, BUT when it becomes “black box”, where no human can examine it, it is a constant invitation to Huge Deception.

The result of AI? It will be almost impossible to tell the Truth from a Lie. Or a Lie from the Truth. (Satan Laughs)


10 posted on 05/25/2025 9:38:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Totally agree.


11 posted on 05/25/2025 9:38:46 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: dennisw
> AI wearables and devices. AI devices the size of an iPhone

If you're willing to have your wearable or phone connect to the cloud, we have that now. That's not "local" hardware, it just a terminal to cloud services. The more interesting challenge is to get that processing capability on the device, without a cloud connection required.

Hardware technology is at least 15 years away from a handheld or wearable device that has actual (as opposed to "claimed") on-device AI capability.

There will be a lot of marginal claims in the meantime, but the processing power required for AI is not arbitrarily shrinkable, and it needs power. There has to be some new technological advance in processing hardware before small (wearable/mobile) AI becomes possible.

12 posted on 05/25/2025 9:43:01 AM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Texas Fossil

“The result of AI? It will be almost impossible to tell the Truth from a Lie. Or a Lie from the Truth. (Satan Laughs)”

I absolutely agree. And also what is Human and what is not Human. The result will be the indirect removal of “human” from the equation altogether. Humans will cease to exist because they cannot be verifiable as truly Human or not. There will be a permanent question mark present at all times and in every situation and interaction.


13 posted on 05/25/2025 9:54:18 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: All

One step closer to “Skynet”.

And the new Mission Impossible movie deals with something similar too.


14 posted on 05/25/2025 9:59:02 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: dayglored

I think the “Size” in the article is deceptive because it would not actually need to be that big as a remote interface. You are right about local size and the resource demands. I think what they will do is just make it an interactive camera and sensor system the size of a smartwatch and have it connected to cloud servers to do the actual heavy processing of the data it gathers.

Not much different than syncing WiFi smartwatches now...


15 posted on 05/25/2025 10:13:01 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: dayglored

Ives developed the Apple Watch. And he was put in charge of the “Human Interface” development which includes brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) or brain–machine interfaces (BMIs). You can bet this is going to be brain interface technology in a Smartwatch as the remote sensor device synced to AI data processing centers.

“User interfaces are composed of one or more layers, including a human–machine interface (HMI) that typically interfaces machines with physical input hardware (such as keyboards, mice, or game pads) and output hardware (such as computer monitors, speakers, and printers). A device that implements an HMI is called a human interface device (HID). User interfaces that dispense with the physical movement of body parts as an intermediary step between the brain and the machine use no input or output devices except electrodes alone; they are called brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) or brain–machine interfaces (BMIs).”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface


16 posted on 05/25/2025 10:30:12 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: dennisw

Phooey to OpenAI!

Support human intelligence and a fully human world!


17 posted on 05/25/2025 11:09:48 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Openurmind

Absolutely True.


18 posted on 05/25/2025 8:46:08 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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