OpenAI CEO Sam Altman And Johny Ive's First AI Hardware Product Could Be A Pen, All Details Here

This year, we got the announcement related to ex-Apple designer Johny Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shaking hands to build the first AI hardware. Now, since the beginning, the project has been treated as a nuclear formula that just can't be revealed. But, the latest leaks related to the same have tipped what we may get to see in the future. According to a tipster who goes by the name Smart Pikachu on X, Johny Ive and OpenAI are working on an AI-powered pen. Furthermore, the manufacturing of the same will be handled by Foxconn. As per the tipster, the device could be a pen or a 'to-go' audio device. Internally, the project is being called Gumdrop. Currently, the details related to the device are scarce, but one thing is clear that the new era

of AI will redefine the perspective of the masses. Coming to its usage, the AI pen could let users write notes by hand and have them turned into digital text with AI. Furthermore, we can expect that the pen will have heavy integration with ChatGPT.

What Else Can We Expect?

Sam Altman has previously said that the prototype of the product is already in place. Keeping that in mind, we can expect the same to make a debut somewhere around the first half of 2027. And it is safe to say that the device is going to be a premium offering, so speculations are that its price will be somewhere around Rs 55,000 to Rs 65,000 at the time of launch. And our hunch related to the same is that OpenAI will definitely club it with a ChatGPT monthly subscription, which will increase the cost of the pen overtime. It will be interesting to see how things pan out for the upcoming product of OpenAI, considering that the company is already at the backfoot in terms of AI models because of Google Gemini.