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OpenAI’s Bold Vision for ChatGPT Seems Poised for a Familiar Business Model: Ads
- OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's design firm io and is developing a sleek, screenless AI companion device expected to start mass production in 2027.
- This project follows OpenAI's plan to enter AI hardware after investing heavily in AI software like ChatGPT, which has 500 million weekly users but only 4% pay subscribers.
- Key figures expressed that the new AI device may redefine user experience and commerce integration, but also raises concerns about user trust if advertising is introduced.
- OpenAI expects to ship 100 million units but also forecasted $44 billion in losses until 2029, reflecting high ambitions but financial challenges ahead.
- This collaboration could disrupt the smartphone market and accelerate AI-powered devices, yet the final product’s impact and Apple’s reaction remain uncertain.
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Jony Ive’s OpenAI Deal Puts Pressure on Apple to Find Next Big Thing
Jony Ive’s deal with OpenAI should cause major shockwaves at Apple, especially after a design-team brain drain and struggles in artificial intelligence. Also: Apple plans Meta-like smart glasses for late next year, and Trump threatens a 25% smartphone tariff. Looking ahead to WWDC, we have the latest details on the company’s operating system redesign plan and what’s likely to be its biggest AI announcement.
What comes after the smartphone?
Image generated with MidjourneyMany have tried to “kill" the smartphone, but none have succeeded so far. Since Apple’s famous keynote that launched iPhone in 2007, smartphones have evolved to become more powerful and deeply ingrained in our daily lives. For many, the smartphone is their personal computer—it is always with them and is the only computing device they own.Today, it seems smartphones have reached their peak. Every major manufacturer …
This week on the ICE: While OpenAI and Jony Ive are proclaiming the end of the smartphone with Project KAIROS, Trump is demonstrating the dangers of Europe's digital dependence on US corporations by blocking international email accounts. And in Darmstadt? The rain is staying away – time for a mowing-free May.
Random Recs: Jony Ive, Centre Commercial Outdoor, Gauthier Borsarello
A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately… 1/ JONY IVE’S SEXY AI. If anyone can make A.I sexy, maybe it’s Jony Ive, whose company IO is being sold to OpenAI to create desirable devices (think pendants, eyewear…) for the age of AGI (artificial general intelligence). Read more in the NYT (gift link). 2/ CENTRE COMMERCIAL OUTDOOR. Heading to Paris menswear week in June? A retail destination to bookmark is the ne…
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