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Sam Altman's OpenAI acquires AI device firm founded by iPhone designer Jony Ive for $6.5 billion

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    • 88:88
      Sam Altman
      In the same way that the smartphone didn’t make the laptop go away, I don’t think our first thing is going to make the smartphone go away,
      WAtoday
      Altman said
    • 88:88
      Sam Altman
      We are obviously still in the terminal phase of AI interactions,
      WAtoday
      said Altman, 40
    • 88:88
      A number of us looked at each other and said, ‘This is probably the most incredible technology of our career,
      WAtoday
      she said in an interview
    • 88:88
      The phone, as it currently is, is a remarkable general-purpose device,
      WAtoday
      Ive said
    • 88:88
      I have felt that my most important and useful work is ahead,
      WAtoday
      Ive said ... adding that
    • 88:88
      Right now, the phone is the medium through which you can access these technologies,
      International Business Times
      Beharry Lall said
    • 88:88
      AI is a new technology shift, and it's creating new opportunities for new entrants,
      CNBC
      Cue said
    • 88:88
      Tech shifts like the internet, the smartphone, and AI only happen once in a generation. OpenAI is catalyzing this shift into something tangible,
      CNBC
      longtime Apple analyst Gene Munster posted on X on Wednesday
    • 88:88
      A collaboration built upon friendship, curiosity and shared values quickly grew in ambition,
      Guardian
      they wrote in the blog post, which offered scant details on upcoming devices
    • 88:88
      Jony Ive
      People have an appetite for something new, which is a reflection on a sort of an unease with where we currently are.”
      The Telegraph
      Sir Jony said
    • 88:88
      AI is such a big leap forward in terms of what people can do that it needs a new kind of computing form factor to get the maximum potential out of it.”
      The Telegraph
      Mr Altman added
    • 88:88
      Sam Altman
      Jony called one day and said: ‘This is the best work our team has ever done.’ I mean, Jony did the iPhone, Jony did the MacBook Pro. These are like the defining ways people use technology. It’s hard to beat those things. Those are really wonderful.”
      The Telegraph
      Mr Altman said
    • 88:88
      Sam Altman
      I think we have the opportunity here to kind of completely reimagine what it means to use a computer,
      CNN
      Altman said in the video
    • 88:88
      The products that we're using to deliver and connect us to unimaginable technology. They're decades old, yeah, and so it's just common sense to at least think surely there's something beyond these legacy products we have,
      CNA
      OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Ive said in a video posted on OpenAI's blog
    • 88:88
      Sam Altman
      The io team, focused on developing products that inspire, empower and enable, will now merge with OpenAI to work more intimately with the research, engineering and product teams in San Francisco,
      NBC News
      the post said
    • 88:88
      Sam Altman
      We’ve been waiting for the next big thing for 20 years,
      The New York Times
      Mr. Altman, 40, added
    • 88:88
      I don’t feel good about my relationship with technology right now,
      The New York Times
      he said
    • 88:88
      I believe everything I’ve done in my career was leading to this,
      The New York Times
      he said
    • 88:88
      On my team, I have extraordinarily talented mathematicians who wouldn't have come to this field if it weren't for the fast progress that we're seeing now,
      CNA
      said Sébastien Bubeck, who left his role as vice president of GenAI research at Microsoft last year to join OpenAI
    • 88:88
      The AI labs approach hiring like a game of chess,
      Reuters
      said Ariel Herbert-Voss, CEO of cybersecurity startup RunSybil and a former OpenAI researcher who entered the talent fight after launching his own company