OpenAI has pulled a much-discussed video selling the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, by the way, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to amass Ive and Altman’s gadget startup io) from its web site and YouTube web page.
Does that counsel one thing is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to steer design work at OpenAI? Not precisely, based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who experiences that the “deal is on monitor and has NOT dissolved or something of the type.” As a substitute, he mentioned a decide has issued a restraining order over the io title, forcing the corporate to drag all supplies that used it.
OpenAI subsequently confirmed that is the case, updating the outdated announcement web page with the assertion, “This web page is briefly down because of a court docket order following a trademark criticism from iyO about our use of the title ‘io.’ We don’t agree with the criticism and are reviewing our choices.”
The corporate mentioned this doesn’t have an effect on the take care of io.
The iyO in query emerged from the Alphabet X “moonshot manufacturing unit,” and its first introduced product is a set of generative AI-powered earbuds. An earlier report at Bloomberg Legislation famous that iyO had introduced a trademark lawsuit towards OpenAI, with the decide suggesting she’s open to the corporate’s argument that OpenAI’s promotional video would possibly already be creating shopper confusion.
For now, not less than, the video stays viewable on X.
This publish has been up to date with affirmation from OpenAI.
