Openi and Google leaders have been renting each other’s heads since the Chattagpat caught the world from the storm. By going to this week’s I/O, Googlers were about to see if Sam Altman Like last year, they will try to upset their shows, when Openi organized a program a day earlier to display the Advanced Voice Mode of Chat GPT.
This time, the Openi dropped its bombs the next day.
Openi is buying “io” hardware division Joni ive The design studio, lefom, is a delight of SEO subscriptions, though I have been told that the name is “input output” and that it was decided some time ago. Nevertheless, the news of the ive and the reversal team has rapidly removed the conversation from a strong exhibition from Google in this year’s I/O. Dualing announcements say a lot about what about the world’s two major AI companies: Google’s models may be technically high and widely deployed, but Openi is kicking everyone’s ass in mind and catching buzz.
Speaking of Buzz, it is worth seeing the headlines that the Open has actually announced this week: It is paying $ 6.5 billion equity to hire about 55 55 people, including former Apple Design Leader. Evans HankiFor, for, for,. Tang tanAnd Scott Canon. They will report Peter WelnderAn experienced open product leader who directly reports to Altman. The rest of the leo frame designers, including legends Mike MattersIve, who are currently designing electric Ferrari for the first time and advising the person who introduced it to the CEO of Altman, Airbin B. Brian Chasski. Open’s press release states that ive and lovefrom will “take deep design and creative responsibilities in the open.”
When the current client’s work is wrapped up, the ive and its design team plans to focus on the open while staying free. In the meantime, Open has already opened up the “future of computing” for others. A job list for a senior research engineer says that the ideal candidate has already spent “speaking and understanding and understanding in the teaching model of mourning clothing.” (Total compensation: 60 460k to 555 k.).
The following is a rough timeline to reach this moment: Ultman and Ivo met two years ago and decided to work formally on hardware this time last year. Openi was set up in the IO Division Leaf Froom to work with a small group of employees. Openai and Lauren Paul Jobs Invested in the end of the end of 2024, when there was a quiet conversation to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to make it a fully stand company. –
The important thing is, I finished my consulting relationship with Apple in 2022, a year before I met the Altman. The contract was extremely profitable for the ive, but prevented it from working on a product that could compete with Apple. Now, the Ive and the Altman are forming the team to expect to be the Voice First AI device later next year.
There are initial prototypes of the device (Altman mentioned taking a house in his promo video with ive). The Altman told the open employees this week that he would be able to sit at a desk or be taken around. Supply chain rumors suggest that it will be almost sizes size of iPod shuffle and will be worn as a necklace.
Just like every other big hardware company, IV and the opposite are also working on AI Airbeds. Ultam Chat is based on bundling hardware as an upsel for GPT subscriptions and imagines AI First Products a sweet product that helps reduce the company’s dependence on Apple and Google for distribution. With her Apple’s relationship in the Rear View mirror, the ive now seems to be ready to eliminate the company it has helped.
Meanwhile, Google was firing on all cylinders this week. AI format is being widely developed in Google Search. The strategy of this product is still inadequate compared to Openi, but it is starting to take advantage of the huge amount of personal data he has to distinguish people in what Gemini can do. If Gemini can work in Gmail, Workpress, YouTube, etc., if people want to use, it will prevent many people from converting to chatigatic – just as Meta did to snap chat with stories in Instagram.
After meeting Google employees up and down the Order chart, I came away from I/O with the feeling that the company does not see destruction like many outdoers on the horizon. One identity is that the ability to buy a search distribution distribution on Apple devices is probably approaching, but Gemini is approaching 500 million monthly users.
Chat GPT is undoubtedly eating in search (Google executive is impossible to comment on the actual health of the volume of inquiry), but Google has agreed to modernize the search much faster than I expected. This situation is different from Apple, which is not competitive in the model race and is suffering from a political dispute that Google has worked mostly in the last two years.
There is also no question that Google is in a well -positioned position to continue to advance the border of the model. The latest gymnasium models are very good, and Google is clearly in its AI position for the postphone world with the project Austral. The company also has an calculation of rolling tools such as impressive new VEO video models, while Openi’s Surah is heavy due to the obstacles of GPU.
It is still quite possible that the development of the Chattagat is underway while Gemini is struggling to become a domestic name. It will be a generation of changes how people use technology that will damage Google’s business in a long time. For now, though, it seems that Google may be fine.
- Anthropic could not sit this week. On Thursday, the company organized a program to launch its Claude 4 models in San Francisco, claiming it is the world’s best for coding. With Openi, Google, and Meta, fighting to win the AI interface layer, Anthropic is positioned as a model Arms dealer of self -choice. It was saying that Wind Surf, who was talking to sell to Open, was apparently deliberately escaped to new models. “If there are models countries, it is equal to the trade restriction,” Nathan Bench Written on X.
- Microsoft Blood was subdued by protest. This week, Blood had several interesting announcements, including Elon Musk’s Grook model Azure and Microsoft on the condition of how to prepare the web plumbing for AI agents. All of them were shadowed by protesters who continue to interfere with the company’s important notes to protest against the business with Israel. The situation has become so tense that Microsoft has failed to stop employees’ ability to send internal email with the words of “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “genocide”.
- I tested Google’s smart glass of prototype. I spent almost five minutes wearing Google’s new smart glasses reference design prototype. They had a small, low -reserish view in the middle of each lens that had sound conversation with Gemini, a basic version of Google Maps instructions, and I took. They were… OK? Google knows that this tech is very early and that full AR glasses are still there. In the meantime, they are smart that they partnership with Warbby Parker, soft monster, and kerrat, to put Android XR in glasses, which I expect it to start next year. Apple is now planning a similar couple’s AI -driven glasses in 2026, the window of being the only largest player in the meta space is closing.
- Hired YouTube services Justin Convoli Disney as the head of her media and sports, a move that Disney is prosecuted.
- Tinder CEO Fi osotalono Stepping down. His role will now be monitored by the CEO of Parent Company Match Group Spencer Rusf.
- Vladimir FedoroffA longtime meta engineering executive, joined the gut hub as a CTO.
- Will RobinsonFormer Coin Base Engineering VP, has joined the Play as a CTO.
- Stephen DadmanIn Europe, Meta Data Protection VP is being discharged due to “structural changes”.
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