Everyone expected a phone, but OpenAI’s first device is a ChatGPT-powered speaker that moves

OpenAI is building a portable, screenless speaker pitched internally as “a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home.” It’ll do the usual smart-speaker things—control your appliances, play music, answer questions, handle messages—all running on ChatGPT. The catch is what OpenAI wants it to feel like. The device incorporates mechanical parts that shift on their own, creating the sense that it’s alive rather than a box waiting to be told what to do, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

It’s still in development. OpenAI is aiming to reveal it later this year and ship it in 2027, as the first of roughly five devices in the pipeline—the phone many expected is further down that road, not the opening act.