{"id":489136,"date":"2026-02-21T04:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489136\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:17:15","slug":"openai-developing-ai-devices-including-smart-speaker-the-information-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489136\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI developing AI devices including smart speaker, The Information reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered \u200cdevices that will include a smart speaker \u200cand possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, the Information reported \u200bon Friday, citing a person with knowledge of the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The smart speaker, the first device OpenAI will launch, is likely to be priced between $200 and $300, the \u200creport said, citing \u2060two people with knowledge of it. The speaker, which, however, would not ship until \u2060February 2027 at earliest, will have a camera, enabling it to take in information about its users \u200band their \u200bsurroundings, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The \u200bsmart glasses likely would \u200cnot be ready for mass production until 2028, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The ChatGPT owner entered the hardware industry with the $6.5 billion acquisition of former Apple \u200cdesigner Jony Ive&#8217;s startup io \u200bProducts, aiming to capitalize on \u200bthe growing demand \u200bfor physical AI and augmented reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Facebook-parent \u200cMeta has seen strong success \u200bwith its Ray-Ban \u200bsmart glasses, which allows users to record and take pictures, and stream content through tiny \u200bcameras. Apple and \u200cGoogle are also reportedly working on their \u200bown smart glasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Shilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered \u200cdevices that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,2060,196480,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-489136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-smart-glasses","11":"tag-smart-speaker","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}