OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive have been keeping the finer details of the first mysterious OpenAI hardware under wraps, but it sounds like they’ve settled on a design. In an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day, they said they are currently prototyping the device, and when asked about a timeframe, Ive said it could arrive in “less than” two years. Little has been revealed so far about the OpenAI device in development, but it’s rumored to be screen-free and “roughly the size of a smartphone.” Altman described the design as “simple and beautiful and playful,” adding that, “There was an earlier prototype that we were quite excited about, but I did not have any feeling of, ‘I want to pick up that thing and take a bite out of it,’ and then finally we got there all of a sudden.”

Full report : Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI’s device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in “less than” two years.