In OpenAI announcedAfter acquiring a design startup led by former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive and others, OpenAI is expected to create hardware devices that can interact with artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal obtained information indicating that the hardware devices it plans to launch can fully perceive the surrounding environment and record users' daily activities.
At the same time, in the relevant interviews with Jony Ive and Sam Altman, it was hinted that this hardware will not have a noticeable presence, which means that it will be built with a small and difficult to identify appearance design.
The relevant description also revealed that this hardware will be free from screen dependence, so it may be like the AI Pin previously launched by Huamn. It is expected to be released before the end of 2026, and the shipment target is set at 1 million units, making it a device that everyone has after mobile phones.
However, market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that OpenAI's hardware device is not expected to enter mass production until 2027. At the same time, in order to avoid geopolitical and tariff considerations, it will choose to assemble, produce and supply it outside of China. Therefore, places such as Vietnam may become candidate locations.
As for the product design, Guo Mingchi believes that this hardware device will be slightly larger than the AI Pin, but can be hung around the neck. It will also have a camera and microphone. It is expected to be used to capture images for visual analysis and to operate by recording user voice commands. The computing part will be processed by the mobile phone connected to this hardware device, and the operation content will also be displayed on the mobile phone screen.
