🔗 OpenAI's first hardware device is a Siri competitor

OpenAI’s first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like “items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity,” The Information says, and it will have a Face ID-like facial recognition system so that people can purchase things.

Source: OpenAI’s first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera

This could also help explain why OpenAI hinted that they weren't interested in the Apple deal anyway

OpenAI declined to comment. But a person close to the company said it had taken “a conscious decision to not become the custom model provider for Apple” in the autumn of last year and instead focus on building its own AI device to leapfrog the big tech companies.

https://www.ft.com/content/8033b1bc-4ffe-47ed-baf0-5abea6a1322a

While this is going to be all very interesting, I am not really sure what the best product here will even look like given we are early in the LLM era.