OpenAI, Jony Ive and iPhone
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Tech's past and future walk into a San Francisco cafe. That's the conceit behind a new video starring legendary Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who on Wednesday announced a $6.5 billion deal that will see the ChatGPT-maker gobble up Ive's nascent device startup.
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Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the company behind global phenomenon ChatGPT, has made a groundbreaking AUD $9.9 billion purchase, acquiring a fledgling devices company started by a former iPhone designer — a deal that was announced with much aplomb by the two tech founders.
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New York Magazine on MSNOpenAI’s Huge Bet on the iPhone GuyWe 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.
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