Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing constructing a brand new AI {hardware} machine, based on a brand new report by The Info.
Each males have spoken to SoftBank CEO and investor Masayoshi Son in regards to the thought, based on folks acquainted with the conversations, nevertheless it’s not clear if he’ll stay concerned. Since leaving Apple, Ive has been concentrating on working for a number of shoppers by means of his British design studio, LoveFrom.
The report is scant on particulars, and doesn’t reveal something about what such a tool could possibly be, however Ive and Altman are stated to be mates and have been discussing “what new {hardware} for the age of AI might seem like,” based on one individual acquainted with the matter.
Altman is without doubt one of the largest traders in client {hardware} startup Humane, with was based by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, each former Apple staff. The startup plans to develop a screenless wearable machine that may be directed utilizing voice prompts and gestures, and tasks info onto surfaces in entrance of it. Chaudhri in Could demoed a prototype to a TEDTalk viewers. In the end, Humane plans to combine OpenAI’s expertise into the machine.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has made waves within the tech world because it was launched to the general public lower than a 12 months in the past. The corporate’s annual income tempo has exceeded $1 billion, because of ChatGPT subscriptions and paid entry to the chatbot’s newest and most superior incarnation, GPT-4. In Could 2023, OpenAI launched an official ChatGPT app for the iPhone and iPad.
For Apple’s half, the corporate has considerably ramped up its spending on synthetic intelligence, based on a earlier report by The Info. Apple’s “Foundational Fashions” staff that works on conversational AI consists of simply 16 folks, however Apple is alleged to be spending hundreds of thousands of {dollars} per day coaching its language fashions, which might at some point be built-in into Siri.