OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is on a quest to build an AI-first device that he says will be as revolutionary as the iPhone but will bring users peace and calm instead of more stress. He even got Jony Ive, the designer of the original iPhone, to help build it.

In an onstage interview with Ive at Emerson Collective’s Demo Day this week, Altman confirmed the AI device, which was first teased in May after OpenAI acquired Ive’s startup, io, will be released in less than two years. Yet the first prototypes are ready, he added, and they may look nothing like what we’re used to.

The yet-unnamed device will be a sort of anti-iPhone. It’s unclear what the design of this device will actually entail—if it will have a screen like a smartphone, or go the route of the always-listening AI Friend necklace, alth

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