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OpenAI confirms completion of deal with io Products

by Milan
July 9, 2025
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OpenAI is expanding its scope. After years of focusing on software and AI models, the company is now moving into hardware. The recently completed acquisition of io Products, an AI hardware startup led by former Apple designer Jony Ive, sends a clear signal: OpenAI wants to penetrate people's everyday lives with its own device.

The AI company OpenAI has officially confirmed that it has acquired io Products. The startup was founded by Jony Ive, Apple's longtime chief designer, along with several other former Apple designers. The purchase price is approximately $6.5 billion. With the completion of the acquisition, the io team is now fully integrated into OpenAI. Jony Ive and his design firm LoveFrom will remain independent but will assume design and creative responsibilities at OpenAI. The collaboration between Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman aims to develop a new generation of AI hardware.

A new AI device as a common goal

Plans to acquire io Products were made public back in May. At the time, OpenAI released a video outlining upcoming hardware initiatives. Now it's clear: Ive will design the first proprietary device for OpenAI. Altman will provide the AI expertise, Ive the product design. The goal is a completely reimagined device. According to initial information, it will be neither an in-ear device nor a wearable. Instead, a small product is planned that sits in a pocket or on a desk – alongside a MacBook or iPhone, but without copying their shape or usage concept. The device will have no display and instead interact with its environment and the user in a context-sensitive manner. Voice- or gesture-based control, combined with AI-driven situational analysis, is conceivable. Rumors have it that it could, for example, react to speech, behavior, or the environment and proactively provide information – without the need to constantly look at a screen.

Merger without loss of control for LoveFrom

Even though io Products is now part of OpenAI, LoveFrom will remain an independent company. Ive and his team will continue to work closely with OpenAI, focusing on design, user experience, and the visual implementation of the products. OpenAI, in turn, will contribute its AI technologies and machine learning. Several designers who co-founded io will move directly to OpenAI. This means that not only Jony Ive's vision will flow into the new hardware, but also the experience of an entire team that has already worked on groundbreaking products at Apple.

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Jony Ive brings hardware expertise to OpenAI's future plans

With the acquisition of io Products, OpenAI is bringing hardware expertise into the company. This move is strategic: Making AI usable in everyday life requires not just software solutions, but physical devices that make this technology accessible and intuitive to use. The planned new product category—neither a smartphone nor a traditional assistant—points to a new way of interacting with AI. OpenAI aims to develop a device that operates in the background, understanding and classifying information without demanding attention. Jony Ive brings decades of experience in the design of technological products to this. The combination of AI expertise and product design at this level could significantly change everyday life with artificial intelligence. As further details about the device become known, strong public interest can be expected—not only because of OpenAI, but also because of Ive's role and influence in product development. (Image: OpenAI)

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