OpenAI Rumored to be Making a Smart Speaker

Mark Gurman, writing at Bloomberg: OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era, according to people familiar with the matter. The product — still under development — is meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project hasn’t been announced. It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to messages and tap into the range of capabilities offered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they said. Mark Gurman, writing on social media: Amid Apple’s trade secret lawsuit, the iPhone maker has nothing like it on the market. A smart speaker. Why did it have to be smart speakers?