Openaai and Jony Ive: New details about working on the first own AI hardware

After the billion-dollar takeover of the hardware company IO from Designer legend Jony Ive, Openai continues to fight with technical hurdles and basic design decisions to develop their first own hardware. This reports the Financial Times and gives new details on what the devices should look like. According to this, the AI ​​device should be on the table and be activated throughout so that it can collect data all day with the built-in sensors. At least one should get several cameras. You should also be able to take it with you. In principle, it is about improving smart speakers such as the Echo devices from Amazon, the British newspaper writes, citing several anonymous sources.

Product for difficult market

How The Financial Times continuesthe device should be more powerful and useful than existing technology. To do this, however, it must also be ensured that it really only reports if it is needed. It should be avoided that too much is talking about what is a problem with Chatgpt from Openaai. According to a source, it is not so easy to build a AI “who is a friend, but not your strange partner”. The device should not be too pushy and direct, but must be able to help. It is also problematic for the team to get the necessary computing power, the newspaper continues to quote. According to a source, the difficulties for this phase of the project are normal and no reason to worry for Openai.

Openaai announced the takeover at the end of May with big words, because of a name, the company is now called “IO Products”. It was made clear that it was about developing AI-controlled hardware, but further details were missing. The report now becomes clearer in which direction the work is going, and the Financial Times points out that the targeted market is difficult. The criticism of the AI ​​support “Friend”, which continuously records its surroundings, was massive a year ago, the Ai Pin von Humane failed quickly. According to the British newspaper, how Openai wants to solve the data protection questions raised by his own device is also completely unclear.