OpenAI recruits iPhone designer Jony Ive to work on AI hardware

Jony Ive (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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 Mr Ive, in a deal valued at nearly 6.5 billion dollars.