The AI giant is acquiring io, a secretive startup founded by Jony Ive, Apple’s former design chief, along with ex-Apple veterans Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan.
Former Apple design head, Jony Ive, has now joined forces with Open AI to build a new AI device with generative artificial intelligence capabilities. This marks a significant expansion of his post-Apple ventures.te
The iPhone maker’s vice president of industrial design, Evans Hankey, won’t be replaced when she leaves the company in the coming months, according to people with knowledge of the decision, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
Ive was the chief design officer at Apple for more than 20 years and resigned in 2019 to create his own design firm
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London-born Jony Ive, left Apple in 2019 after 27 years, having played a big role in the designs of the iMac and MacBook computers as well as the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Newson, an Australian, has designed everything from Qantas business class seats to Nike sneakers.