OpenAI is building an AI-powered speaker that will provide smart home services, according to a Bloomberg report, citing anonymous sources who are familiar with the matter.
The frontier AI lab has not confirmed the development.
The display-free speaker is slated to have moving parts and can provide personalised services to users by leveraging ChatGPT’s capabilities.
It can reportedly learn about the user through the media they consume, eventually providing a more customised experience.
OpenAI launches GPT-Live voice models that listen and speak simultaneously It was earlier known that OpenAI was exploring potential physical applications of its AI models.
In 2025, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman formally announced an ongoing collaboration with veteran designer and former Apple executive Jony Ive.
OpenAI also acquired Mr.
Ive’s device startup io.
While tech companies are working on a range of AI-enhanced hardware products and/or wearables such as AI glasses and AI pendants and AI-enhanced smart home devices, many of their functions can be more easily and cheaply executed by the user’s regular smartphone.
There are also concerns about AI features being paywalled, or users being subjected to rising subscription prices as the underlying AI models mature.
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News of an upcoming AI product comes as OpenAI and Apple are locked in a legal feud.
The iPhone-maker has alleged that OpenAI stole its trade secrets, apart from trying to poach Apple employees and asking them about the company’s private matters.
However, the ChatGPT-maker has denied allegations of being interested in other companies’ trade secrets.
In response to a user on platform X who claimed that Mr.
Altman was scared of Apple, he responded: “[I] am not afraid of apple, but i have tremendous respect for them. s-tier company.”
