OPENAI and designer Jony Ive are trying to resolve a number of technical challenges before publishing their mysterious AI gadget, according to a Financial time report. Two of the challenges include determining the “personality” of the palm size and the frequency it should speak. “The concept is that you should have a friend who is a computer who is not your strange IA girlfriend,” according to an informed source of the plans.
The report describes the device as lacking in a screen and “about the size of a smartphone” which can be transported by the user or placed on surfaces such as a table or an office, reflecting similar details that fled in May. It is designed to communicate with users via a microphone, a speaker and a camera – or more cameras, according to a FT source. It is the first of a family of devices developed by IVE and the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, targeted for the end of 2026 or at the beginning of 2027.
OpenAi is looking for ways to make the gadget “accessible but not intrusive”, according to the FT Sources, in order to provide a similar experience to Apple Siri’s digital vocal assistant, “but better”. The company has trouble deciding on the voice and ways of the AIA supplied by AI, and to make sure it knows when to get involved with users and finish a conversation. A source of the report indicates that Openai adopts an “always on” approach that brings together data throughout the day, rather than being activated by specific verbal prompts such as echo devices in Alexa from Amazon.
According to the report, “Amazon has the calculation for an Alexa, the same goes for Google (for its domestic apparatus), but Openai is struggling to obtain enough calculation for Chatgpt, not to mention an AI device,” said a source close to IVe FT. “They must first solve this problem.”
