Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI.
Sam Altman has dismissed rumors claiming that OpenAI was working with former Apple design chief Jony Ive on an AI-powered system. Here’s what he mentioned.
During the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live occasion, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified that the corporate isn’t trying to create an AI-powered system with former Apple design chief Jony Ive.
For these uninitiated, The Information reported final month that Apple’s former chief of design, Jony Ive, was working with OpenAI to create the “iPhone of AI,” and that the initiative had already attracted excessive-profile traders, together with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Microsoft, which is already backing OpenAI for its generative AI endeavors.
Now, as noticed by The Verge, Altman has denied these claims throughout the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live occasion when he mentioned, “I think there is something great to do, but I don’t know what it is yet,” and that he has no real interest in “trying to compete with the smartphone. It’s phenomenal at what it does.” Furthermore, Altman additionally described OpenAI’s work within the {hardware} house as “nascent.”
Nevertheless, it stays to be seen how firms like OpenAI will reply to the rising {hardware}-generative AI integration supplied by rival firms like Meta (with Meta Quest 3) and Amazon (new AI-powered Echo gadgets). OpenAI, for now, doesn’t have a {hardware} product to compete with rivals within the {hardware} house however solely has a powerful footing with the GPT-4 Large Language Model that powers its ChatGPT chatbot, and a bunch of different APIs made accessible to exterior entities.
With that mentioned, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has not too long ago gained a number of noteworthy options, together with new voice and picture options for Plus and enterprise customers. Enabling the Voice function on iOS and Android requires handbook telephone settings, whereas photographs will work on all platforms.
