FILE PHOTO: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his collaboration with Apple designer Jony Ive, has finally settled down on the prototype of an AI hardware device.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his collaboration with Apple designer Jony Ive, has finally settled down on the prototype of an AI hardware device.
In a video posted Monday (November 24, 2025) by Emerson Collective at an event that had both Ive and Altman as a part of a panel on stage, Ive added that the device could be launched in “less than two years.”
Altman said that the work that had gone into the partnership was “jaw-droppingly good” and “exciting.”
“Finally, we have the first prototypes,” said OpenAI boss Sam Altman. “I can’t believe how jaw-droppingly good the work is and how exciting it is. But also, now getting to the benefit of hindsight and looking at the progress — the process backwards — how much it’s all in there and how it wouldn’t have worked any other way. And then out of the end of it comes this extraordinary thing.”
While there are no details around what the AI gadget will be, earlier reports have hinted that there will be no screens.
Altman described the design of the device as “simple and beautiful and playful,” adding that it will know everything that the user has “ever thought about, read or said.”
Previously in May, OpenAI acquired Ive’s startup called io for $6.4 billion and announced an AI hardware project.
Published – November 25, 2025 10:10 am IST