OpenAI, Jony Ive and Apple
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Jony Ive, AI and Sam Altman
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OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive and Sam Altman's startup, io, which will lead creative and design work for OpenAI.
OpenAI's latest power move in the AI race is to cast CEO Sam Altman as a Steve Jobs for the new era. Why it matters: Jobs remains Silicon Valley's most revered founder, and since his 2011 death no industry figure has been able to match his success at product innovation,
OpenAI's acquisition of Ive's io startup could disrupt Google and Apple's strategies, impacting the tech landscape and raising stakes in the AI race.
Well-funded and big-name partnerships often end in failure. And ex-Apple employees don’t have a great record of success.
Jony Ive has been called the "world's greatest designer." He created the look and feel of the iPhone, perhaps the most culture-changing device of the 21st century. Now Ive is joining OpenAI, hoping to create another transformative piece of personal technology.
A day later, Jony Ive and Sam Altman kicked down the door and told Google, “Hold my beer.”
I really hope OpenAI's new hardware doesn't make me talk to myself in public.
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, Investors were happy about the hefty returns they got from the sale of io to OpenAI.