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We broke down the Sam Altman and Jony Ive video


Call it "When Jony Met Sammy."

OpenAI’s$6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI-device startup io was accompanied by what could best be described as an engagement-party sizzle reel starring the iPhone designer and Sam Altman. While the clip was full of fawning descriptions of each other — and a suspicious number of “ordinary San Franciscans” with the apparent gift of time travel — it was light on details about what Ive and Altman are cooking up. 2:00: Altman: “Jony was running a design firm called LoveFrom that had established itself as really the, I think, densest collection of talent that I’ve ever heard of in one place — and probably that’s ever existed in the world.”

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