OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two decades of Apple products.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a household name after the release of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model, ChatGPT.

OpenAI is planning to develop AI “companion” devices that will integrate artificial intelligence capabilities with everyday life, potentially opening the door to a new high-tech innovation used alongside laptops and smartphones.

Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X.

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman’s ambitious $6.4 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s hardware startup, io, is drawing comparisons to the kind of audacious, future-facing bets made by Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg during the formative years of Facebook.

OpenAI has acquired the AI hardware startup io, founded by renowned designer Jony Ive, in a deal valued at $6.5 billion. The transaction marks OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and brings Ive’s expertise in product design directly into the company’s core operations.

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It is tempting to see this week’s attempt by OpenAI to plant its flag in the consumer hardware business as a similar challenge to another tech empire: Apple. As he announced the purchase of io, a tech hardware start-up co-founded by Jony Ive,