Last year, OpenAI released a promotional video featuring CEO Sam Allman.
I think we have the opportunity here to kind of completely reimagine what it means to use a computer.
In it, he's chatting with the famous product designer, Johnny Ive.
Sam is a rare visionary.
He shoulders.
Johnny Ive used to be synonymous with Apple, but here he was cozying up with the CEO of OpenAI.
Johnny is the deepest thinker of anyone I've ever met.
What that leads him to be able to come up with is unmatched.
Video is kind of a love fest, but it was also an announcement.
OpenAI was getting into hardware.
It was going to make an AI device.
And Johnny Ive, who spent almost 30 years at Apple, was going to lead the team to do this.
To basically displace Apple, to create a family of devices.
That will be built for the age of AI,
that will be different from our smartphones, something new to build our lives around.
Our colleague Rolf Winkler covers the tech industry,
and he says OpenAI has been hiring a lot of former Apple employees and putting them to work on top-secret AI devices.
Now, Apple is sending OpenAI a warning.
Friday, it filed a lawsuit.
In a nutshell, Apple is accusing OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets.