OpenAI may announce its first hardware device later this year, with Bloomberg reporting that the product is expected to be a screenless smart speaker built around ChatGPT. The device would reportedly use a camera and additional sensors to understand the user's environment.
If accurate, the move would put OpenAI into direct competition with voice-assistant hardware while trying to redefine the category around conversational AI. It also shows how frontier AI labs are looking beyond software subscriptions toward ambient consumer devices.