OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive

OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg.

It surfaced the day before OpenAI’s actual first shipping hardware, a macro pad for Codex coders, reached customers.

The distinction matters for anyone counting firsts. Codex Micro is a developer accessory built with the boutique keyboard maker Work Louder, while the speaker is the first consumer product out of io, the startup OpenAI bought from Ive for $6.5bn last year.

Internally, OpenAI does not describe it as a speaker at all. It calls the product the first of its kind, a computer built for AI and aimed at making busy people more productive, one that controls smart-home appliances, plays media, answers questions, responds...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to thenextweb.com. To see the full text click HERE