Last year, OpenAI announced it would be working with iPhone designer Jony Ive on a range of physical devices. Rumors swirled about various surveillant doodads: a pen, an earbud, a necklace, a pocket shard. Now, a few weeks out from the unveiling of Ive’s other big post-Apple design collaboration — the Ferrari Luce, the intensely polarizing look of which led the company’s former boss to say he hopes “they remove the prancing horse from that car” — reporter Mark Gurman has leaked information on OpenAI’s first device, a smart speaker that’s “mobile, screen-free,” and intended to function like an AI “home computer.”

The product — still under development — is meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project hasn’t been announced. It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to messages and tap into the range of capabilities offered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they said.

The product — still under development — is meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project hasn’t been announced. It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to........

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