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Court filings reveal OpenAI and io’s early work on an AI device
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.
Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. Altman had previously told OpenAI’s employees at a meeting that the company’s prototype, when finished, would able to fit in a pocket or sit on a desk, according to the Wall Street Journal. In one email revealed in the case, Marwan Rammah, a former Apple engineer that’s now working at io, told Tan that purchasing a large database of three-dimensional scans from The Ear Project could give the company a “helpful starting point on ergonomics.” It’s unclear if any such deal took place.
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