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originally reported that Openai will buy a startup Johni Ive, simply called “Io”, for $ 500 million. To say that the actual cost of the sale was slightly higher, it would be downplayed.
The final price of the sale turned out to be almost 6.5 billion US dollars; in stock.
Bloomberg notes that Openai pays $ 5 billion for joint-stock capital. Balance of almost 6.5 billion dollars. The United States was associated with partnership at the end of 2024, in which Openai participated, the acquisition of 23% of the shares in IO.
The purchase now notes the largest acquisition of Openai and signals about the company's transition for the study and deployment of AI to the creation of equipment. It is expected that the transaction will be completed in the coming months, if provided that it passes for regulation.
It is expected that the transaction will add 55 new employees to Openai, including hardware engineers, software developers and production experts, Bloomberg reports. These new employees will help to realize the vision of EV and Altman for a family of devices.
in a nine-minute video posted on the Openai website Joni Ive and the general director of Openai Sam Altman, discussing how the partnership and what their hopes for promotion became. There are many mysterious links to the “device”, presumably, something that the couple hopes to go out in 2026. “I was able to live with this, and I think that this is the coolest technology that the world has seen.”
there is no way to find out exactly what the device is & mdash; Although current speculations indicate some voice assistant. I mention that he believes that the world is ready for something completely new.
“The products that we use to deliver and connect us with unimaginable technologies and MDash; they decades,” I say. “This is just common sense, at least think:” Of course, there is something outside these outdated products. “”
, however, as it is It turns out how excited the couple. It was reported in 2024 that I was looking for investors to provide funding for 1 billion dollars for an unknown device or devices. The year, to establish his own Lovefrom design company, and since then he hired many former Apple employees, including Evans Hanki’s replacement of the former Apple Tang Tan, specially for working on Startup AI cooperation with Sam Altman.
