{"id":932797,"date":"2025-05-22T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932797"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:08:22","slug":"openai-acquires-jony-ives-startup-io-for-6-4-billion-in-major-hardware-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/openai-acquires-jony-ives-startup-io-for-6-4-billion-in-major-hardware-push\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI acquires Jony Ive\u2019s startup \u2018io\u2019 for $6.4 billion in major hardware push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold step toward its hardware ambitions, OpenAI has acquired design startup io for $6.4 billion \u2014 its largest acquisition to date. The startup, founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive, is part of a broader initiative to bring artificial intelligence into the physical world. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came via a joint blog post by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive, who described their partnership as \u201ca collaboration built upon friendship, curiosity and shared values.\u201d They revealed that their alliance has been two years in development, though details on future products remain limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold step toward its hardware ambitions, OpenAI has acquired design startup io for $6.4 billion \u2014 its largest acquisition to date. The startup, founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive, is part of a broader initiative to bring artificial intelligence into the physical world. The announcement came via a joint blog post by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive, who described their partnership as \u201ca collaboration built upon friendship, curiosity and shared values.\u201d They revealed that their alliance has been two years in development, though details on future products remain limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}