OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the {hardware} startup co-founded by well-known Apple designer Jony Ive, from its web site and social media channels. The sudden change carefully follows their latest announcement of OpenAI’s nearly $6.5 billion acquisition and plans to create devoted AI {hardware}.
OpenAI tells The Verge the deal continues to be taking place, nevertheless it scrubbed mentions as a consequence of a trademark lawsuit from Iyo, the listening to gadget startup spun out of Google’s moonshot manufacturing facility.
The announcement weblog put up and a nine-minute video that includes Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are now not obtainable. The weblog put up from Ive and Altman saying the deal mentioned, “The io workforce, centered on creating merchandise that encourage, empower and allow, will now merge with OpenAI to work extra intimately with the analysis, engineering and product groups in San Francisco.”
OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wooden:
This web page is quickly down as a consequence of a courtroom order following a trademark grievance from iyO about our use of the identify ‘io.’ We don’t agree with the grievance and are reviewing our choices.