Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a HomePad …Apple’s upcoming ‘HomePad’We’ve long been expecting Apple to launch a new smart home device combining a smart speaker with a display. OpenAI’s mysterious hardware deviceIve and Altman made big claims for OpenAI’s upcoming hardware device in a frustrating teaser video more than a year ago. In particular, they strongly implied it was going to be a completely new form factor, unlike any other smart device seen to date. Recent reporting suggests it may be nothing more than a smart speaker with a camera, able to perform similar tasks to Visual Intelligence or Ray-Ban Meta glasses.