COURT FILINGS REVEAL OPENAI AND IO'S EARLY WORK ON AN AI DEVICE

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Legal filings submitted as part of a trademark dispute reveal details about OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The companies have been vigorously researching in-ear hardware devices. However, io's chief hardware officer said in court that the prototype OpenAI CEO Sam Altman missioned in io's launch video was not an in-ear device nor a wearable device. The design of the prototype has not yet been finalized and the product is at least a year away from being advertised or offered for sale.