> I don’t wanna carry another device with me all the time

And that's why this (and any other stand alone "AI device") is doomed to fail.

We solved this problem already in 2007. "An iPod. A phone. An internet communicator. Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices."

The industry has been chasing that high ever since, failing to stop and consider that maybe the smartphone is effectively peak consumer tech as a delivery vehicle for various services.

OpenAI is just upset that they don't get to own the delivery vehicle, Google and Apple do.

The description makes me think that it's targeted at the "screenless" trend. Especially among young people there is a trend to cut down on smartphone usage. This device would fit right in with that: no screen, status display with LEDs and oldschool moving parts (presumably engineered to be cute or endearing). Something to carry around when you don't want to be distracted by the temptations on your phone screen

The irony of selling an AI assistant with that premise is not lost on me

Following the same reasoning, smartwatches would have been a failure. They might be niche, but sales prove there is a market to explore/deepen.

Overall, openAI can sit on a mountain of money and bet mobile phones are the final form factor for human/AI interaction, as they have been for human/internet.

Or deploy some of that money and figure out whether that is true.

It’s also about creating an environment for those features to emerge, without being constrained by someone else platform, that could natively embed it at any time, and (probably more important) app marketplaces.

A signal for opportunity is also given by Apple’s inability to give their users Siri and Google sitting on transformers while OpenAI grabs the chatbot marketplace.

Also, anything they build does not cannibalize their other product lines.

There are lots of incentives for them to try out and figure out features on the fly, which arguably also happened with the IPhone (app store).

> I don’t wanna carry another device with me all the time

Hopefully they've learned from the mistakes of the Humane AI pin and/or the Rabbit R1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_r1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Inc.

EDIT:

From the article "The idea is to make the device easy to carry around the home with one hand".

I don't understand the market target at all for this device. You want the equivalent of the Amazon Echo Dot but you also carry around your house?

It will probably be pretty.