OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billion
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OpenAI is buying Jony Ive's startup, io, for $6.5 billion, as first reported by The New York Times. The company confirmed the news in a blog post on its website headlined by the photo you see above, which is apparently real and not AI generated. As part of the deal, Ive and his design studio, LoveForm, will continue to work independently of OpenAI. However, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan, who co-founded io with Ive, will become OpenAI employees.
OpenAI has not disclosed whether the deal would be paid for in cash or stock. The company has yet to turn a profit. A...
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