OpenAI recruits Jony Ive to design AI hardware in $6.5 billion deal

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.