OpenAI and Jony Ive are building a ChatGPT-powered super-gadget

Right here’s what we all know: it’s most likely not good glasses. Past that, we don’t know a lot about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are constructing via their newly mixed firm io, besides that it’s some form of AI super-gadget. However after a few years of watching the trade try to shove AI into each kind issue you may think about, we’ve some guesses.

On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to speak via all of the issues we all know, form of know, and don’t know in any respect about what io is as much as. There’s some interesting reporting on the notion of the gadget as a companion to your telephone and laptop computer, some connections to the original iPod Shuffle, and nonetheless lots of questions on how this can work and whether or not you’ll need it. We gained’t see this gadget for some time, however don’t fear — we’ll certainly preserve speaking about it.

Lastly, within the lightning spherical, it’s time for one more version of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, as a result of, effectively, the explanation. We additionally speak about some breaking good glasses information from Apple, and Alex’s expertise with the Android XR prototypes at I/O. It looks like all people besides OpenAI is betting on good glasses. We’ll see who’s proper.

If you wish to know extra about every thing we focus on on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, first on io:

And in Microsoft Construct / net information:

And within the lightning spherical: