Smartphone and laptop technologies have not evolved enough for today’s most future-minded innovators: Artificial intelligence needs its own form.

This is the shared goal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive. Altman launched AI into the public mind with the release of ChatGPT in 2022 and has since aimed at an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, to equal or surpass human intelligence. This week, OpenAI acquired Ive’s AI device startup, io, ahead of a new product they’ve been outfitting.