AI is coming for your phone – this so far you know and perhaps you have already experienced you as Mithun of Apple Intelligence or Google.
But Openai, the manufacturer of Chatgpt and perhaps the biggest name in AI software and services is a different condition. It is looking beyond the traditional smartphone and wondering how AI can fully strengthen our equipment.
On Wednesday, the company announced that it bought Johnny Ive's device startup IO for $ 6.5 billion. Together, IVE and Altman are creating something new – a tool that we have the first opposed to anything owned, with AI at its core.
The pair said in a statement about their working relations, “It became clear that our ambitions to develop a new family, engineer and build a completely new company demands a completely new company.” “IO team focuses on developing products that inspire, empower and enable, will now merge with Openai to work more intimately with research, engineering and product teams in San Francisco.”
IVE Visionary Experienced Apple Designer, who together with Steve Jobs created an iPhone with a long list of apple devices. Now he has focused his focus to create a fresh device category, which has clearly extended the interest of Altman. Ive's startup is allegedly working on “screenless phone” – although other reports show that it is not really a phone.
The rumors of this mysterious AI-centric device have been roaming for months, but have been placing a tight lid on the IVE and ALTMAN details, fearing that a contestant may try to defeat them in the market.
So, for now, we just have to imagine.
The clear current point of comparison is Human AI PIN, an AI-specific device that is worn in your collar. It was launched for great fanfare in February 2024, but became a great failure, which led to a permanent wind of pessimism around the entire idea of the AI devices.
“It is surprising that this type of product is doubted, especially in the context of Human AI's high-profile failure, which captured the imagination of technical enthusiastic people including me, but the CCS Insight chief analyst Ben Wood said,” including me, but a classic example of a more time-to-do. “
However, the combination of IVE and Altman is full of capacity. Wood said, “It would be foolish to place bets against Joni Ev, looking at his remarkable track record of distributing a market disrupted products,” Wood said.
Ive said in a Youtube video, “I have a growing understanding that whatever I have learned in the last 30 years, he has taken me to this moment.”
In Forester, VP principal analyst Thoman Hasan says, “His challenge,” not to use AI to enhance the existing tasks, but to invent new products and experiences. “
He said, “OpenIAI's ambitions for their AI devices are that it is capable of shipping 100 million units-a bold bet for a software company entering a hardware space once, which has no pre-installed supply chain.
“Joni Ive is an extraordinary designer, but a volume play about the smartphone (and hardware) scale and scope,” Hasan said. “I think Apple is still best to win this marathon race.”
A wearable? Glasses? a phone? Maybe not
In the absence of any adequate signal or clue, we remain in the dark for now what this first piece of openi hardware will look, how it will work and how it will fit in our life.
Based on the claims made by reliable Apple analyst Ming Chi Kuo, some speculation has been made that the Openai device will be a wearetable. In a social media post, Kuo stated that the IO product was designed to be worn around the neck and “was as compact and elegant as an ipod shaft.”
This will indicate that Altman and IVE are taking a different approach to the meta, which has gone into all smart glasses. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that glasses is the last AI device, as your ability to get and distribute information in close proximity to your eyes and ears.
But we should also be prepared for the possibility that Altman and Ive's device is not wearing at all. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ultman said that Eve had doubts about the idea of AI Wearbals, thereby no longer the sound that he would hug them as part of the project.
Citing a briefing given to Openai employees by Altman, the WSJ reports that the device will “be disinterested, will be able to rest in someone's pocket or at someone's desk, and a third core device will be the device that a person will put on the Macbook Pro and an iPhone after an iPhone.”
It is eager to see the Openai screenless phone being discussed in this way, almost as it comes within the specific family of Apple's products. The WSJ stated that Altman has long envisaged “a family of equipment”, which will be described by IVE as a “new design movement”.
Perhaps the only thing we know about this product is definitely that it will not come with the screen. Altman is important about the amount of time spent on the screen – but is there a place in the market for devices that take us away from our screen? “Except for Smartwatch, no new product category has emerged since the smartphone,” Hasan said. “There is a place for disintegration and innovation.”
This is not a phone, not a one-one-wiring currently as a unknowable third thing for us-and the possibility will be for some time now. Keep checking back for more rumors and updates, which we will add because we will get more information about what kind of device can rule our lives in the near future, as smartphones do today.
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