The legendary designer behind Apple's iPhone, Jony Ive, has joined OpenAI to create devices tailored for using generative artificial intelligence, according to a video posted Wednesday by the ChatGPT maker.
Ive and his team will take over design at OpenAI as part of an acquisition of his startup named "IO" valued at $6.5 billion.
Sharing no details, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in the video that a prototype Ive shared with him "is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen."
The San Francisco-based AI company finished the clip with a message that it looks forward to sharing fruits of the device collaboration next year.
British-born Ive was an Apple employee from 1992 to 2019, during which time he oversaw the development of the brand's now legendary pro