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Time of India
a day ago
- Business
- Time of India
Looking forward to 'Open-io': Google CEO Sundar Pichai lauds OpenAI-Jony Ive collab
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai headlined the AI-packed Google I/O event in Mountain View, California earlier this month. A few hours and 40-odd miles away in San Francisco, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and former iPhone designer Jony Ive announced a partnership for a novel AI device. In a recent interview with The Verge , Pichai said he is looking forward to the technology that will come out of this collaboration. On May 21, OpenAI said it will buy and absorb Ive's AI devices startup, io , in an all-equity deal worth $6.4 billion. Ive and his creative collective LoveFrom will take on "deep creative and design responsibilities across OpenAI and io". And Pichai is excited. "I'm looking forward to a 'Open-io' announcement ahead of Google I/O ," he said in response to a question on competition intensifying as a result of the collaboration. "People tend to underestimate this moment... I always like to point out when the internet happened, Google didn't even exist. I think AI is going to be bigger than the internet. There are going to be companies, products, categories created, which we aren't aware of today. So I think the future looks exciting," Pichai said. Pichai emphasised that currently there is a lot of opportunity to innovate around hardware form factors with the platform shift to AI. "I'm looking forward to seeing what they do." — OpenAI (@OpenAI) Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The video announcement for the OpenAI-io deal indicated that the prototype of their first AI product is ready, designed by Ive and at least informally approved by Altman. The duo said the product will be launched by 2026, giving no further details about its scope or capabilities. Ive is known for designing iconic Apple products, including iPhones, MacBooks, iPods and iPads. His Lovefrom has worked with Ferrari and Airbnb in the past. Meanwhile, this is OpenAI's largest acquisition yet, and comes close on heels of its deal to buy AI-assisted coding tool Windsurf for about $3 billion. Also Read:
India.com
4 days ago
- Business
- India.com
Meet man, designer of iPhone, iPad, AirPods, Steve Jobs' close aide who wanted to leave Apple after…, now joins Sam Altman's…
OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the designer behind Apple's iPhone, to lead a new hardware project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT. OpenAI said it is acquiring io, a product and engineering company co-founded by Ive, in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion. OpenAI said its CEO Sam Altman had been 'quietly' collaborating since 2023 with Ive and his design firm, LoveFrom. Who is Jony Ive? Ive worked at Apple for over two decades and is known for his work on iconic iPhone, iMac and iPad designs. Ive was Apple's chief design officer before leaving the company in 2019 to start his own design firm. A British-born was an Apple employee since 1992. He joined it after completing graduation from Newcastle Polytechnic, now Northumbria University, in the UK. He had also started his own design firm 'Tangerine' , according to the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. His company made a deal with Apple after which he moved to Cupertino, California to work in the design department. He quickly became the head of the department in 1996. Ives stayed at Apple even after Steve Jobs' death, during which he handled the brand's products like the iMac and AirPods to the iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch. He left the company in 2019 to start his own company called LoveForm. Steve Job's aide wanted to quit Apple When Jony Ive joined Apple, the company had ousted its founder Steve Jobs and the CEO Gil Amelio. Ive also wanted to quit, according to the biography of Steve felt that Apple was focusing too much on profits. Their designers were asked to generate models for the outside of products but engineers were using cheap materials to build the inside part. When Steve Jobs returned in Apple as CEO in 1997. Ive remembered Steve saying that he wanted the company 'not just to make money but to make great products.' This idea changed Jony's mind and he decided to stay back. Over the years, he developed a close bond with Steve Jobs. (With Inputs from Agencies)
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Google CEO reacts to OpenAI's big hire: 'Jony Ive is one of a kind'
Sundar Pichai praised Jony Ive's design legacy in an interview and talked about AI's hardware impact. OpenAI acquired the ex-Apple design boss' startup, IO, for nearly $6.5 billion to work on AI products. Ive and Altman's announcement coincided with Google's I/O conference, echoing last year's news drop. OpenAI and the former iPhone designer Jony Ive's nearly $6.5 billion deal got the tech industry talking last week — and Google's CEO has now weighed in. Like many tech leaders, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is leading his company through a mission to build out its AI empire with both software and hardware products. Meanwhile, the hiring war for top talent has heated up as companies spend big to execute on their goals. OpenAI's latest move was to bring in a not-so-secret weapon whom Apple had long leaned on for his design chops: Ive. When asked about OpenAI's nearly $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive's secretive startup, IO, and collaborate on hardware with his design collective, LoveFrom, Pichai praised the former Apple design chief. "Stepping back, Jony Ive is one of a kind," Pichai said during an interview for the "Decoder" podcast. He pointed to Ive's storied track record, which includes leading the design of iconic Apple products, such as the iMac, iPhone, and Apple Watch. While the pair have met only a few times, Pichai said, he and many others in the tech industry have long been admirers of Ive's work. "I think it's exciting," Pichai said. "There's so much innovation ahead, and I think people tend to underestimate this moment." To underscore his point, Pichai reminded listeners that Google, the most popular search engine in the world, didn't exist when the internet was invented. We're in a similar moment with artificial intelligence, the Google CEO said — except he predicted that AI would be "bigger than the internet." "There are going to be companies, products, and categories created that we aren't aware of today," he said. While Pichai said he's excited to see what Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman have in store, he said Google would also be "doing a lot" of innovation as AI shifts the industry. That doesn't mean a mystery AI hardware product will replace the smart gadgets we use today, Pichai said. Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. While Altman and Ive haven't announced what their products will look like, consumers can expect a "family of AI products," the pair said in a video last week. Reports have indicated they're working on an AI companion device, and Altman has previously said he has "no interest in trying to compete with a smartphone." OpenAI went public about the deal on Wednesday while Google's annual I/O developer conference was in full swing — a move that didn't appear to be lost on Pichai. It's not the first time the ChatGPT maker dropped a big announcement around the same time as Google I/O. Last year, the company announced its AI model GPT-4o on May 13, a day before Google's 2024 I/O conference kicked off. "I'm looking forward to an OpenAI announcement ahead of Google I/O, the night before," Pichai said. Read the original article on Business Insider
Business Insider
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Google CEO reacts to OpenAI's big hire: 'Jony Ive is one of a kind'
OpenAI and iPhone designer Jony Ive 's nearly $6.5 billion deal got the tech industry talking last week — and Google's CEO has now weighed in. Like many tech leaders, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is leading his company through a mission to build out its AI empire with both software and hardware products. Meanwhile, the hiring war for top talent has heated up as companies spend big to execute their goals. OpenAI's latest move was to bring in a not-so-secret weapon that Apple had long leaned on for his design chops: Jony Ive. When asked about the nearly $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive's secretive startup, IO, and collaborate on hardware with his design collective, LoveFrom, Pichai praised the former Apple design chief. "Stepping back, Jony Ive is one of a kind," Pichai said during an interview for the "Decoder" podcast. He pointed to Ive's storied track record, which includes leading the design of iconic Apple products like the iMac, iPhone, and Apple Watch. Although the pair have only met a few times, Pichai said, he and many others in the tech industry have long been admirers of Ive's work. "I think it's exciting," Pichai said. "There's so much innovation ahead, and I think people tend to underestimate this moment." To underscore his point, Pichai reminded listeners that Google, the most popular search engine in the world, didn't exist when the internet was invented. We're in a similar moment with AI, the Google CEO said — except he predicts that AI will be "bigger than the internet." "There are going to be companies, products, categories created, which we aren't aware of today," he said. While Pichai said he's excited to see what Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman have in store, he said Google is also going to be "doing a lot" of innovation as AI shifts the industry. That doesn't mean a mystery AI hardware product will replace the smart gadgets we use today, Pichai said. Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Although Altman and Ive haven't announced exactly what future products will look like, consumers can expect a "family of AI products," the pair said in a video last week. Reports have indicated the pair is working on an AI companion device, and Altman has previously said he has "no interest in trying to compete with a smartphone." OpenAI went public about the deal on Wednesday while Google's annual I/O developer conference was in full swing — a move that didn't appear to be lost on Pichai. It's not the first time the ChatGPT maker dropped a big announcement around the same time as Google I/O. Last year, the company announced its AI model GPT-4o on May 13, a day before Google's 2024 I/O conference kicked off. "I'm looking forward to an 'Open I/O' announcement ahead of Google I/O the night before," Pichai said.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
OpenAI buys iPhone architect's startup for $6.4bn
OpenAI is buying an untested startup for $6.4bn, the ChatGPT maker's biggest acquisition yet. The hardware startup, called io, was founded by Apple design guru Jony Ive, known best as one of the principal architects of the iPhone. Ive and OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, said in a blog post that their partnership has been two years in the making. 'A collaboration built upon friendship, curiosity and shared values quickly grew in ambition,' they wrote in the blog post, which offered scant details on upcoming devices. 'Tentative ideas and explorations evolved into tangible designs.' OpenAI's purchase of io is its biggest known acquisition yet. Ive and a cohort of other Apple alumni founded io one year ago, according to the blog post. It is part of Ive's bigger project called LoveFrom, which describes itself as a 'creative collective' made up of architects, artists, engineers, various types of designers, musicians and writers. Ive left Apple in 2019 after a 27-year career as one of the company's foremost product designers. He's known for simple and clean aesthetics that pay attention to small details like packaging and font. One of his early famous designs was the brightly colored bubble-shaped iMac computer. From there, he went on to design the first iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, Apple Watch and AirPods. For his work on creating such distinctive products, Ive was knighted by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace in 2012, a moment he called 'thrilling' and 'particularly humbling'. In Altman and Ive's blog post on Wednesday, they wrote that the io team will merge with OpenAI to work 'more intimately with the research, engineering and product teams in San Francisco'. Ive himself will not join OpenAI as an employee, but his company will 'take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software', according to Bloomberg. Since leaving Apple and starting LoveFrom, Ive has mostly remained quiet, and io has not debuted any hardware. His company's list of clients reportedly includes Christie's, Airbnb and Ferrari, though. Another project Ive has been working on is LoveFrom's headquarters in San Francisco, according to the New York Times. Ives told the paper he is designing the headquarters of the company he is developing with OpenAI. OpenAI has likewise yet to unveil a hardware device, but it has indicated it is heading in that direction. It has hired hardware and robotics staff, including Caitlin 'CK' Kalinowski, who headed Meta's augmented reality glasses initiative. In her LinkedIn announcement, Kalinowski wrote that her new role at OpenAI is to focus on 'robotics work and partnerships to help bring AI into the physical world'. OpenAI has also invested in the robot startup Physical Intelligence, which aims to bring 'general-purpose AI into the physical world'. Investors have been throwing money at OpenAI over the past couple of years, which is now valued at $300bn, according to Bloomberg. In March, it closed a funding round of $40bn led by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. Microsoft has a 49% stake in the AI company after investing $13bn in 2023. Along with io, OpenAI moved to make other mammoth acquisitions over the last year. It purchased the AI-assisted coding tool Windsurf for $3bn earlier this month and bought the real-time analytics database Rockset for an undisclosed sum last summer. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
