OpenAI's Jony Ive Device: $300+ Doughnut Speaker

OpenAI's first hardware product with Jony Ive is starting to take shape, and it sounds less like an iPhone successor than a talking bagel. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the device is roughly the size of a hockey puck, doughnut-shaped, battery-powered, and built to be carried around the house in one hand. No screen.

No keyboard. Just a camera system, sensors, lights, and moving parts that shift on their own to signal when the thing is listening or responding to you.

Gurman's sources put the price above $300, with a launch penciled in for 2027, which gives OpenAI plenty of time to change its mind about the details. The functional pitch is closer to ChatGPT's voice mode than anything Apple has shipped, just running on beefier models meant to feel more humanlike in conversation. That distinction matters given Ive's history and the fact that Apple and OpenAI are currently suing each other.

Gurman frames this puck as a possible opener for a broader lineup, not a one-off gadget. Before any of it hits shelves, though, expect a long stretch of leaks, denials, and half-confirmed details, the ritual that seems to precede every OpenAI hardware story so far.