Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s mysterious ‘AI -driven computer’ will be OpenAi’s Magnum Opus – Here are 5 indications that show what it will be
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Sam Altman and Jony Ive mentioned the announcement of IO, an AI device startup purchased by OpeniAn “extraordinary moment”.
After watching the video of nine minutes where the two “friends” talk about their future business efforts in a busy San Francisco Café Bustling with paid actors, I was intrigued by the promise of “a new generation of technology that can make us our better self”, but confused by the lack of details.
Nine minutes later and everyone who looked at the weird company romcomb Sam and JonyHas more questions than answers. We already knew that IVE was working with Altman, but the announcement that OpenAi is buying the startup for $ 6.5 billion makes it all that a bit more realistic.
OpenAI wants what Io creates as his Magnum -opus, and to be honest, given the track record of IVE, I would not be the least surprised if so. But still, I am more confused about the prospect of what it could be than what it will not be.
After the unveiling, the WSJ, Bloomberg and other points of sale published articles that further insight into what the first product of IO could look like. I have read the piece, I have sought rumors and articles from the past and I came up with five indications that give us an idea of what we can expect from this upcoming chatgpt-driven hardware.
Here are the top five indications that indicate what Sam and Jony could work on.
1. An AI device as we have never seen before?
It is difficult to even understand what a dedicated piece of AI hardware could look like if it doesn’t look like those who have come for it. Last year we saw the market flooded with products such as the Humane AI -pin and the Rabbit R1, both of which had no impact.
After the announcement of IO, I spoke to BloombergWhere he said that humane and rabbit were “very bad products,” he added, “is there an absence of new ways of thinking expressed in products.”
After the announcement, Altman gave his OpenAi -Staff an example of what is coming, and according to Bloomberg the product will be able to be fully aware of the environment and the life of a user, unobtrusive, able to rest in someone’s pocket or on someone’s desk. ‘
I am not a genius, I could not have imagined the concept of the iPhone, but for me this sounds like a Jony-Enyny of a special chatgpt-slimming pin.
2. It will not be portable (in the traditional sense)
If the first product of IO can sit on your desk or can be thrown in a bag, it will not compete with the Apple Watches of the world. Instead, the duo told the Wsj The intention is to “wean users of screens”.
It is also not glasses such as the Ray-Ban metablaas and “IVE is skeptical about building something to wear on the body.”
That doesn’t really give it up, but it continues to paint a picture that looks like the form factor of the human AI -pin. I can’t help it, but imagine a small AI device that can be placed anywhere, and can communicate with a user in the same way as we would communicate with Chatgpt Advanced Voice mode or Gemini Live.
Another hint that Altman and IVE have given the WSJ is that the product will be ‘able to be fully aware of the environment and the lives of a user’ and ‘unobtrusive’. ‘Again, painting the image of a small smart pin that you can place everywhere.
3. It will sit next to your iPhone and Mac
The IO AI device “will be a third core device that would put a person on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone”, according to Ive and Altman, who offers an experience that has not really been possible so far.
In the nine -minute conversation between the two, Altman explains how we are currently dealing with Chatgpt. He says: “I should reach my bag, go out my laptop, open it, launch a browser, I would start typing and then explaining that thing, then going into enter, then I would wait for a reaction. That is the limit of what a laptop can do, and I think this technology [ChatGPT] deserves much better. “
Now there is probably a lot of marketing here, but the duo seems to be convinced that everything they are working will define modern technology and give us the best way to communicate with the possibilities of chatgpt.
In February I wrote about this rumor deviceAnd I said: “I am not entirely convinced of the idea of a special AI device, but if the product from OpenAi connects via Bluetooth, add a kind of bracelet or pin that directly interacts with chatgpt and all its power on your smartphone, then this may be the next step in the evolution of smart wearables.
Three months later, and although this quote from Ive and Altman refers to a self -standing device instead of a device that connects to your smartphone, I think that the idea of what the user experience could be, is pretty perfect. On the other hand, as I said above, I am not the inventor of the iPhone, I can hardly understand why the clocks change twice a year.
4. It’s not a smartphone
OpenAi is planning to send more than 100 million units of this device that Altman hopes is the start of a ‘family of devices’. He sees IVE’s hardware references at Apple as a blueprint for creating a successful new genre of product that records the AI -hardware market.
If the previous mentions had not made it somewhat clear, this device with chatgpt-driven is not a smartphone. We do not know whether that means it is not yet a smartphone and Io on a device to compete with the iPhone and Android smartphones in the future. But the first product that comes from this company will not try to compete with the best -selling device from Apple.
5. Nobody knows, and that’s exciting
Listen, I know the marketing video was as cheesy when it comes. I know, we were burned time and time again by technology companies. Heck, even Apple, with its fantastic track record, could not send Apple Intelligence as it promised.
That said, there is something incredibly exciting about the promise of innovation. It is clear that only because Jony Ive is working on a product, does not confirm good. I will die on a hill and say that the iPhone 5C was bad.
However, you have one of the most powerful companies in the world that create it, love it or hatred, the most impressive software we’ve ever seen, and it works together with the man who has designed the greatest consumer -technical innovation of the 21st century.
Whether the product of IO itself is a success or not, is someone’s gamble, but the prospect in a new way of interaction with technology and AI is something that certainly interested me.
The first product of IO is expected to be launched in 2026, who knows how far AI will have come by that time.
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