OpenAI’s $300 AI Doughnut Wants to Own the RoomJony Ive and Sam Altman are reportedly building a screenless, camera-equipped smart speaker with moving parts, a premium metal body and a distinctly un-Apple doughnut shape. A $300 metal doughnut is a ridiculous object on which to wager the future of computing. Underneath, it is OpenAI’s attempt to seize control of the interface through which people communicate with artificial intelligence. NEW: OpenAI’s device – a human-like smart speaker –will look like a doughnut and be the size of a hockey puck. Basic wake-word detection, sensor management and privacy filtering could happen on the device, while demanding reasoning tasks are sent to OpenAI’s cloud.