{"id":933003,"date":"2025-05-22T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933003"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:45:34","slug":"openai-to-acquire-apple-veteran-designer-jony-ives-startup-io-in-6-5-billion-deal-to-create-ai-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/openai-to-acquire-apple-veteran-designer-jony-ives-startup-io-in-6-5-billion-deal-to-create-ai-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI to acquire Apple veteran designer Jony Ive\u2019s startup io in $6.5 billion deal to create AI devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has announced it will acquire io, the AI hardware startup co-founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion. This marks OpenAI\u2019s bold entry into the hardware space.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition brings Jony Ive \u2014 the visionary behind Apple\u2019s iconic products like the iPhone, iMac, and iPad \u2014 along with a team of former Apple designers, into OpenAI. Together, they will spearhead the development of a new class of AI-native devices under a dedicated product unit at OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has announced it will acquire io, the AI hardware startup co-founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion. This marks OpenAI\u2019s bold entry into the hardware space. The acquisition brings Jony Ive \u2014 the visionary behind Apple\u2019s iconic products like the iPhone, iMac, and iPad \u2014 along with a team of former Apple designers, into OpenAI. Together, they will spearhead the development of a new class of AI-native devices under a dedicated product unit at OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933003","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}