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Sir Jony Ive, the renowned designer behind Apple’s iPhone, has embarked on a new partnership with OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, to develop an innovative AI-enabled device. Ive, who recently sold his hardware startup, io, to OpenAI in a $6.4 billion deal, will assume creative and design leadership across the merged companies. The device, still under wraps, is expected to be screenless, wearable, and as elegant as an iPod Shuffle, with mass production anticipated to begin in 2027. Ive expressed a renewed optimism about technology’s potential to serve humanity positively, despite acknowledging the unintended negative impacts of modern tech. The collaboration has been lauded by OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, who called a prototype “the coolest piece of technology the world will ever see.”