[CptFribble]

Does this signal that OpenAI is seeing the limits of their own technology being hit just around the corner?

There is already no shortage of investment and hype around their core product - but it definitely does not seem like something you'd want to cram into a physical product, and definitely definitely not something you'd need $1B to develop.

This smells like "Open"AI is on-ramping to the final stage, cashout.

1. Raise $1B for a device blessed with Ive cool-factor for maximum hype and sales

2. Launch this device for $999 ($1299?)

3. Record-breaking IPO shortly after

4. ???

5. Everyone realizes they don't really need a $1k device to tell them "As an AI language model, I can't answer that question" fifteen times per day

[nickfromseattle]

A device that is 1000x better than Siri + Alexa + Cortona could be worth tens of billions of dollars a year in revenue. Revenue that OpenAi can use to fund UBI.

Someone will build this device, might as well be OpenAi (+ Jony Ive).