At the end of September, news broke that ex-Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were working together on a new project. At the time, many people immediately assumed that the two were working on an iPhone killer to bring the smartphone into the age of artificial intelligence.
However, in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern, Altman shot that idea down, saying that he had “no interest in trying to compete with the smartphone.” However, Altman didn’t deny the two were working together, saying, “I think there is something great to do but I don’t know what it is yet.”
