OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s hardware firm, io
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“Now that the Company has a new plan, I intend to review it for compliance with Delaware law by ensuring that it accords with OpenAI’s charitable purpose and that the non-profit entity retains appropriate control over the for-profit entity,” she said then.
Sam Altman, of OpenAI, and Jony Ive, longtime Apple designer, will work together within the ChatGPT-maker to build hardware — but it's unclear what exactly.
As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.
You might say that for more than a year now, Robert Weissman has been the thorn in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s side — and he’s not going away. In January 2024, Weissman — the co-president of advocacy group Public Citizen — became one of the first and more prominent of the company’s critics to question whether OpenAI had abandoned its founding charitable mission and to call for an investigation into its nonprofit status.
A group that opposed OpenAI's restructuring wrote in a letter this week that the startup's new organizational plan still does not go far enough to safeguard the ChatGPT creator from generating dangerous artificial intelligence technology.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the company behind global phenomenon ChatGPT, has made a groundbreaking AUD $9.9 billion purchase, acquiring a fledgling devices company started by a former iPhone designer — a deal that was announced with much aplomb by the two tech founders.