OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the {hardware} startup co-founded by well-known Apple designer Jony Ive, from its web site and social media channels. The sudden change carefully follows their current announcement of OpenAI’s practically $6.5 billion acquisition and plans to create devoted AI {hardware}.
OpenAI tells The Verge the deal remains to be taking place, however it scrubbed mentions as a result of a trademark lawsuit from Iyo, the listening to system startup spun out of Google’s moonshot manufacturing unit.
The announcement weblog publish and a nine-minute video that includes Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are not accessible. The weblog publish from Ive and Altman asserting the deal stated, “The io staff, centered on growing merchandise that encourage, empower and allow, will now merge with OpenAI to work extra intimately with the analysis, engineering and product groups in San Francisco.”
OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wooden:
This web page is quickly down as a result of a courtroom order following a trademark grievance from iyO about our use of the title ‘io.’ We don’t agree with the grievance and are reviewing our choices.
