Last year rumors surfaced about a collaboration between former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, but so far the two have remained silent on the matter. In a profile of technology/jony-ive-apple-lovefrom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&ngrp=mnp&pvid=2D87E4C1-1429-49ED-9B2A-558595007065″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:The New York Times;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”> However, in an article published this weekend, Ive confirms that his company LoveFrom is leading the design of an ai product being built with Altman. Also on board are Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, who both held senior design positions at Apple.
So far there is a team of about 10 employees involved in the project, based in a San Francisco office building that is one of several properties Ive has purchased on a single city block, according to TimesBut we still don't know much about the product they're working on. The report describes Tan and Hankey in wheelchairs between LoveFrom properties that were “covered in papers and cardboard boxes with early ideas for a product that uses ai to create a computing experience that is less socially disruptive than the iPhone.”
Since leaving Apple in 2019 to found LoveFrom, the design firm has worked on And yet, we haven't seen much in the way of hardware, just . While an ai product appears to be on the horizon, there's currently no timeline for its debut.