OpenAI’s Secret ChatGPT Speaker, AR Glasses & AI Pin – 2025’s AI Gadget Showdown vs Meta & Humane
OpenAI’s Big Leap into Hardware in 2025 OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – is making an ambitious jump from software into consumer hardware. In 2025, leaks and rumors revealed that OpenAI, in partnership with famed ex-Apple designer Jony Ive, is developing a whole family of AI-powered devices under the brand “io.” According to a detailed report in The Information, one prototype resembles a screenless smart speaker, and the company has “considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder and a wearable pin” as well tomshardware.com 9to5mac.com. The roadmap suggests OpenAI is aiming to release its first device by late 2026