{"id":414443,"date":"2026-02-08T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414443\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:52:09","slug":"openais-first-hardware-product-will-be-ai-powered-earbuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414443\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s first hardware product will be AI-powered earbuds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Chinese tipster on Weibo, OpenAI is gearing up to launch its first hardware product &#8211; a pair of earbuds, of course, powered by the company&#8217;s own AI model. According to the report, the company decided to scale back on its hardware efforts for the time being, likely because of the rising hardware costs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770547929_64_gsmarena_000.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI's first hardware product will be AI-powered earbuds\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At first, OpenAI was rumored to be working on a small pendant or a pen, which is in line with the CEO Sam Altman&#8217;s remarks about the device being more &#8220;peaceful and calm&#8221; than a smartphone. Especially after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/heres_what_openais_first_hardware_product_designed_by_jony_ive_is_rumored_to_be-news-70918.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI hired Apple&#8217;s ex-chief designer Jony Ive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plans have probably changed since the first mention of the device, and the company has decided to go with something simpler &#8211; AI-powered earbuds. Sadly, there are no more details available except that it will likely be called &#8220;Dime&#8221;. It&#8217;s expected to hit the market by the end of this year, and once the HBM (high-bandwidth memory) shortage improves, OpenAI will introduce a more advanced version of the product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ithome.com\/0\/920\/082.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a Chinese tipster on Weibo, OpenAI is gearing up to launch its first hardware product &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-414443","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-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}