OpenAI's new gadget leak reveals as ChatGPT creator vies to disrupt market –$400 price, shape, other key specs: Report

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is all set to disrupt the smart speaker market with its new doughnut-shaped product, Bloomberg reported. Touted as an AI-first computer, it vies to enter the market dominated by Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google. Let's have a look at key specifications of the new gadget.

Key specs of OpenAI's new gadget

• Shape: ‘The circle-shaped device will include parts that move on their own,’ the report said citing sources familiar with the matter. Slated for 2027 launch, this highly anticipated device is roughly the size of a hockey puck.
• Price: Expected to cost anywhere between $300 to $400 per unit — cheaper than a standard iPhone, it will be costlier than most smart speakers.
• Personalised product: As per the report, this device mimics the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps but comes with more advanced models for humanlike interactivity. It aims to provide tailored conversations, offering a real person-like experience with this personalised product.

• Features: Bloomberg report further mentions that the speaker will have grills and microphones for fielding commands and conversing with users.
• Design: Designed to work in different positions such as hand, on a nightstand or kitchen counter, this product will be battery-powered.
• Display: “OpenAI is also planning to include lights on the device to demonstrate when it’s listening and make interactions feel more personal. A camera system and other sensors, meanwhile, will perceive the surrounding environment and feed visual information into the AI," the report said.
• Material: Besides a premium look, this device will use upscale materials like high-quality metal.

Apple sues Sam Altman's OpenAI

OpenAI joined hands with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom studio to design this device. Last year, OpenAI acquired a device startup ‘io Products’ co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive alongside members of his LoveFrom creative collective. Amid Apple’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of theft of intellectual property, people familiar with the matter said that the company believes that the first OpenAI device doesn’t use or violate any Apple trade secrets.

Labeling Apple’s accusations as careless, aggressive and oddly personal, OpenAI's legal team contends that Apple's suit was “predicated on a misrepresentation of facts and allegations that are speculative at best.”

OpenAI plans to unveil the device this year and then make it available next year but Apple’s request this week for an injunction against Sam Altman's company could complicate the new product’s release. It seeks to block OpenAI and specific former employees from accessing, using, or disclosing Apple's trade secrets and confidential hardware information.