From CNET: Jony Ive, designer of the iPhone and iPod, is working on a new product with OpenAI but is running into technical challenges, according to a report from the Financial Times on Sunday.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
According to the FT report, the product is a screenless, palm-size device that takes in audio and visual information and responds to requests. However, OpenAI doesn't have the size or scale of Amazon or Google, and it can barely handle the computing resources necessary for ChatGPT users.
For customers to have a bespoke AI device, a lot more processing power would be required. That could be why OpenAI entered a multibillion-dollar data center partnership with AMD on Monday. Company CEO Sam Altman praised the deal on X in a post, saying, "The world needs much more compute."
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