OpenAI’s vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker
We’ve got a new vision for the next great piece of AI hardware —and it (allegedly) is going to look a lot like a donut. Details about OpenAI’s first piece of hardware, designed by Jony Ive’s LoveFrom studio, are emerging. According to Bloomberg, the device will be a smart speaker with no display . It will be shaped like a donut roughly the size of a hockey puck. It’s battery powered, small enough…
OpenAI, led by Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, is reportedly developing an AI-powered smart speaker in the shape of a donut. According to Bloomberg, the device will be battery-powered, small enough to carry around, and made of high-quality metal. It will feature a camera system that observes its environment and feeds the data into ChatGPT.
The speaker aims to provide a more interactive experience by incorporating moving parts that signal when it's responding, adding a sense of 'personality' to the hardware. Despite smart speakers' current limited capabilities, OpenAI hopes their donut-shaped device could eventually replace smartphones. However, the smart speaker market is currently dominated by Amazon's Alexa and Google Home, with global shipments of around 150 million units per year.
The market's potential, however, is vast, with the smartphone ecosystem valued at a trillion dollars and used for various tasks from banking to filmmaking. While the concept of an AI-driven donut speaker is intriguing, it remains to be seen if it will be the first step towards the more immersive, invisible computing experiences depicted in science fiction.
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