{"id":293947,"date":"2026-02-20T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:52:08","slug":"openai-developing-ai-devices-including-smart-speaker-the-information-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293947\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI developing AI devices including smart speaker, The Information reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> 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":293948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,20548,54570,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-293947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-smart-glasses","15":"tag-smart-speaker","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}