iPhone designer Jony Ive becoming a member of OpenAI as a part of $6.5 billion deal

Jony Ive, the celebrated former Apple industrial design maven behind the look of the iPhone, iPad and different of the know-how big’s merchandise, has joined OpenAI as a part of a $6.5 billion deal that may merge’s Ive’s startup with Sam Altman’s firm.

Ive will assist the bogus intelligence firm, which developed ChatGPT, launch units with generative AI functionality, in response to a video posted on OpenAI’s X account on Wednesday. 

As a part of the deal, OpenAI introduced it would purchase with Ive’s startup io, in response to a press release posted by OpenAI. Ive and his startup staff will lead design efforts on the AI firm. 

“Two years in the past, Jony and I began speaking about what the way forward for AI and new sorts of computer systems was going to appear like,” Altman, CEO of OpenAI, mentioned within the video. “It grew to become in a short time obvious to each of us that we wanted a 3rd firm.”

Their mission is to create a household of units that enable individuals to make use of AI to “create all kinds of great issues,” Altman mentioned, noting that Ive and his staff have already developed a prototype machine.

Ive labored at Apple for over 20 years and is thought for his work on iconic iPhone, iMac and different designs. He was Apple’s chief design officer earlier than leaving the corporate in 2019 to start out his personal design agency, referred to as LoveFrom.

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