{"id":550377,"date":"2026-07-15T04:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550377\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:43:18","slug":"openais-first-device-will-be-movable-screenless-speaker-built-as-ai-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550377\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s first device will be movable, screenless speaker built as AI companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the artificial intelligence era, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The product \u2014 still under development \u2014 is meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project hasn\u2019t been announced. It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to messages and tap into the range of capabilities offered by OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The device represents a critical next step for OpenAI, a top developer of AI models that is poised for an initial public offering in the coming months. The move will vault the company into deeper competition with the likes of Apple, Amazon and Alphabet\u2019s Google, and the push has already met some resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220,936,2670,61,60,1682,80,1628],"class_list":["post-550377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-chatgpt","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-openai","tag-technology","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}