OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design legend Jony Ive have continued to keep full details of OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware secret, but it now appears the duo has locked in a final design. Speaking during an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day, both confirmed they are actively prototyping the device — and when asked about its release window, Ive hinted it could debut in “less than” two years.
While only minimal information has leaked about the upcoming OpenAI device, reports suggest it may be screen-free and “roughly the size of a smartphone.”
Altman described the hardware’s design as “simple and beautiful and playful,” noting 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.”
He added, “I hope that when people see it, they say, ‘That’s it!’,” to which Ive confidently replied, “Yeah, they will.”