OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Friday that the artificial intelligence startup has finally finished its first prototypes for hardware devices.

"Finally, we have the first prototypes," Altman said in a video posted Monday by Emerson Collective, which invests in entrepreneurs. "I can't believe how jaw dropping good the work is and how exciting it is."

Altman was speaking in an on-stage discussion with former Apple design chief Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs and president and founder of Emerson Collective.

In May, OpenAI acquired Ive's startup, called io, for $6.4 billion in equity and announced that it would make new AI devices. Ive took on design responsibilities on the hardware project. Since then, OpenAI and io have be

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