OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announced on Tuesday that his company will launch «in the coming years» a device to allow users to «take artificial intelligence (AI) everywhere». The product is expected to be designed by Jony Ive, the renowned former designer of Apple. However, the AI company did not provide further details about the future product. According to a report by The Information, the company is working on several devices: a screenless smart speaker, smart glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a portable pin, with a launch planned for late 2026 to early 2027. «We want to empower people with AI as much as possible and trust that the problem, the process that has worked throughout history, of people building better and better things with better and better tools, will continue,» he noted today during a live stream to announce the company's internal restructuring. Altman described today how OpenAI continues to perfect not only what AI knows, but also how it thinks, as the company's ultimate goal is to create safe, transparent, and human-aligned systems: understanding what devices they can access, what data they use, and how they make decisions. He also announced that by September 2026, OpenAI plans to launch a research assistant capable of helping with data analysis and simple experiments; and by March 2028, that assistant could become a researcher, capable of generating and testing original hypotheses.
