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What we know about the device from OpenAI and former Apple design lead Jony Ive

They don’t think it will kill the smartphone — yet.

5/22/25 8:07AM

Yesterday, OpenAI announced it was buying former Apple design lead Jony Ive’s AI device startup for $6.5 billion. Ive’s startup, io, would provide OpenAI with a dedicated unit for developing AI-powered devices. Based on reporting from The Wall Street Journal from an internal OpenAI meeting yesterday and an interview with Bloomberg, we now know a little bit more about what the first of a “family of devices” might be like.

The devices are meant to be “companions” that are part of everyday life.
They will be “fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, [and] able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk,” WSJ says.
Developers are conceiving of it as a third device people will need, in addition to an iPhone and a MacBook Pro.
It’s not a phone or glasses and is meant to wean users off screens.
It could include headphones or cameras.
OpenAI plans to ship 100 million of these devices “faster than any company has ever shipped 100 million of something new before.”
They expect to release a device by late 2026.
It’s not going to kill the iPhone: “In the same way that the smartphone didn’t make the laptop go away, I don’t think our first thing is going to make the smartphone go away,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Bloomberg. “It is a totally new kind of thing.”

Let’s hope it’s at least more successful than notable AI device flops like the Humane Ai Pin and the Rabbit r1 AI companion.

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To make the feature shiny and new, the company is adding “counts,” along with a dedicated poke button and page, so users can keep track of who they poked or were poked by and how much.

Meta is hoping the updated feature will lead to more usage from young people, who’ve already started to adopt the practice thanks to previous pushes by Meta. Social media companies, like Snapchat and TikTok, have previously gotten into hot water before for similar gamification elements like “streaks” that critics have said are addictive.

The average age of Facebook users has been ticking up for years as the company loses young people to newer services, including Instagram, which Meta bought more than a decade ago, back when it was still called Facebook. According to the latest data from Pew Research Center, released last winter, teens were way less inclined to use Facebook than TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.

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OpenAI is working on a “jobs platform” for people who lose their jobs to AI

OpenAI has some good news and bad news for workers. The bad news? AI will probably take your job. The good news? The company will offer AI-powered classes to retrain you, and try to help you get a job as a certified AI pro.

The company announced plans for the OpenAI Jobs Platform, in partnership with Walmart, John Deere, and Accenture, to help workers looking to level up their AI skills, and match them with companies seeking such candidates.

In a blog post announcing the plan, the company wrote:

“But AI will also be disruptive. Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us—from shift workers to CEOs—will have to learn how to work in new ways. At OpenAI, we can’t eliminate that disruption. But what we can do is help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with companies that need their skills, to give people more economic opportunities. “

Using AI-powered instruction, users can receive certification for their training, and OpenAI said it is committing to certifying 10 million Americans on its platform by 2030.

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