About a month ago, OpenAI scrubbed any mention of the $6.5 billion purchase of io, Jony Ive’s startup that will manufacture ChatGPT hardware for the AI firm.
The deal was announced in mid-May through a surprising video featuring Sam Altman and Jony Ive. The two explained why they partnered on the project and teased the ChatGPT io device. Ive and his team of well-known former Apple designers and engineers had already built a prototype that Altman tested.
Some wondered whether either party had second thoughts. Was the deal off? Had the first of many ChatGPT devices already been canceled?
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