OpenAI Hires Apple's iPhone Design Lead for New Hardware

OpenAI acquired io Products, a hardware startup co-founded by Jony Ive, in May 2025, tapping Tang Tan—Apple's former iPhone design chief—to lead development. Tan's expertise in supply chains and industrial design suggests OpenAI is building a mass-market device, likely wearable or pocket-sized. This marks OpenAI's first sustained consumer hardware effort.