We find out from Ive that Altman is a “rare visionary.” We hear from Altman that Ive is “the deepest thinker over anyone [he’s] ever met.” We’re told by Altman that Ive’s design firm is the “densest collection of talent that I’ve ever heard of in one place and probably has ever existed in the world.

Apple designer Jony Ive's AI hardware startup, IO, in a deal worth nearly $6.5 billion. Ive previously worked with Sam Altman.

OpenAI’s been on a shopping spree.First, a $3 billion bid for Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. And now, a whopping $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the AI device startup OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive have been working

OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two decades of Apple products.

The contest in Silicon Valley to dominate artificial intelligence is playing out on a new court: superstar researchers.

When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world in November 2022, it lit the fuse that ignited the generative AI era.But Karen Hao, author of the new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI,

OpenAI had just 300 employees when it launched ChatGPT. Within a year, it doubled in size, causing chaos and high turnover for employees.

Ilya Sutskever, the brains behind ChatGPT, told scientists at OpenAI in the summer of 2023: “Once we all get into the bunker…”