OpenAI’s Rumored Smart Speaker Sounds More Like a… Squirming AI Robot?
OpenAI’s big hardware venture alongside legendary ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is reportedly shaping up to be a smart home speaker powered by AI. According to anonymous sources, the smart speaker will be shaped like a donut and about the size of a hockey puck. Bloomberg even suggests that the device costs around $300 or $400, which would be significantly more than most other smart home speakers.
- ▪OpenAI’s big hardware venture alongside legendary ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is reportedly shaping up to be a smart home speaker powered by AI.
- ▪According to anonymous sources, the smart speaker will be shaped like a donut and about the size of a hockey puck.
- ▪Bloomberg even suggests that the device costs around $300 or $400, which would be significantly more than most other smart home speakers.
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OpenAI’s big hardware venture alongside legendary ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is reportedly shaping up to be a smart home speaker powered by AI. But unlike your average agentic chatbot-enabled Amazon Echo Dot or Google Home Speaker, OpenAI’s puck is built for squirming.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000795867","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"ai,apple,openai,rumors,smart-home","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The latest report from Bloomberg offers us our most complete idea of what to expect from OpenAI’s nascent hardware,…
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