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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by dbbk on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:01PM (#44054963)
But they're not getting him. Jony isn't included in the deal.
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by brentm on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:15PM (#44055121)
They are according to WSJ:

> Jony Ive, a chief architect of the iPhone, and his design firm are taking over creative and design control at OpenAI, where they will develop consumer devices and other projects that will shape the future look and feel of AI.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/former-apple-design-guru-jony-iv...

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by dbbk on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:38PM (#44055400)
The Verge says otherwise

> Ive won’t be joining OpenAI, and his design firm, LoveFrom, will continue to be independent, but they will “take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software,” in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion

https://www.theverge.com/news/671838/openai-jony-ive-ai-hard...

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by bredren on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:28PM (#44055966)
“Including its software…”

That’s a remarkably big product scope to own!

Are we talking about Devex workflows from docs on getting fed through Ive’s group?

The Verge must have this wrong, it doesn’t make sense and I don’t think Ive would be interested in maintaining design on ChatGPT’s web client.

Besides, only Anthropic beats the UX of ChatGPT. It would seem like a mistake to dismiss the authority of the folks who have built that product up.

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by jermaustin1 on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:03PM (#44054994)
He has $5B reasons to help them though.
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