OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's AI Hardware Startup io in $6.5 Billion Deal
- On May 21, 2025, OpenAI announced it will acquire io, a hardware AI startup co-founded by Jony Ive, for about $6.5 billion in San Francisco.
- The acquisition follows two years of collaboration between Ive, the former Apple chief design officer, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on AI devices.
- Io, staffed by about 55 engineers including former Apple designers, will develop AI-powered consumer hardware with design input from Ive’s firm LoveFrom.
- Ive expressed that his experiences over the past three decades have prepared him for this exact opportunity, while Altman praised him as the greatest designer in the world.
- This deal, OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date, could enable it to create innovative AI devices that compete directly with Apple and debut as early as 2026.
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