OpenAI goes all in with Jony Ive as Google plays AI catchup
OpenAi has just made his biggest acquisition, and created Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s Secretive Device Startup, IO, in a $ 6.5 billion deal. IVE, the legendary designer behind the iPhone and other iconic Apple products, will now lead creative and design work at OpenAI through his sturdy LoveFrom. The goal? To take AI “outside the screen” and to build a new generation of AI-driven consumer devices.
In addition to the technology, there is a clear story game here. OpenAi refiners Altman as the Jobs-like visionary and I as the design genius that makes it all real. Social media had a field day with the staged buddy shots of the duo, but the messages is difficult to miss: take the iPhone launch and make the AI.
Nowadays on WAN’s Equity Podcast Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony HA organizes the deal, dive into AI Wearables and discuss more of this week’s technical headlines.
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- Max’s Inside Scoop from Google I/O: The return of Google Glass and the reactions of developers on Google’s AI-driven searchper
- Luminar -Drama, from dismissed to the CEO Step Downs and the potential $ 200 million fundraising efforts of the Lidar Startup
- 23andme’s second life, and what the new buyer of the company is planning to do with DNA data of users
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