OpenAI is now reportedly contemplating making ChatGPT glasses, regardless of CEO Sam Altman’s public rejection of the shape issue.
Outdoors the Solar Valley Convention, again in July, Altman took questions from the press whereas sporting a pair of white sun shades with surprisingly thick temples. When requested “are you sporting sensible glasses? are these sensible glasses?”, he replied “no, completely not, I do not like sensible glasses”.
Sam Altman: “I do not like sensible glasses”.
The response got here two months after OpenAI formally introduced it was stepping into {hardware}, buying veteran Apple designer Jony Ive’s {hardware} startup io and signing a partnership along with his design studio LoveFrom.
OpenAI hasn’t but stated what precisely its first gadget can be, however The Wall Road Journal reported on the time of the deal that Altman particularly informed OpenAI employees that it will be a screenless pocket-sized gadget, and particularly that it will not be glasses or some other wearable.
Now, The Info studies that OpenAI is poaching design, manufacturing and provide chain employees from Apple to construct “a complete line” of gadgets.
In keeping with the report, OpenAI is engaged on a wise speaker, along with its pocket-sized gadget, and has “thought-about” making glasses, a digital voice recorder and a wearable pin.
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OpenAI’s first conventional gadgets aren’t anticipated to reach till late 2026 or 2027, so if the corporate does resolve to make glasses, a launch would doubtless be a few years off.
Throughout his Join 2025 speak, Meta’s Michael Abrash described how future sensible glasses with always-on sensing will ship spatial “contextual AI”, offering each proactive recommendation and direct questions on your life. If the speedy fee of adoption of sensible glasses continues, it might turn into one of many main type elements for AI by the point OpenAI launches, giving Meta, Google, and Apple vital benefits and leaving OpenAI badly behind.
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May Altman’s preliminary rejection of the shape issue transform his largest mistake?
