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“I am absolutely certain that we are literally on the brink of a new generation of technology…”

This has been recently said by Jony Ive, the legendary product designer at the origin of the iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and many other Apple products.

Now on his own, Jony Ive created his own “LoveFrom” company, and then, a mysterious startup called “io.”

But here's the shocking twist: Jony Ive’s startup has just been acquired by OpenAI for an astronomical six and a half billion dollars.

What? 6.5 billion? What could be so valuable to pay that much money?

I recommend you watch the video “Sam & Jony introduce io” on YouTube. This video, of cinematic quality, as if it were shot by Francis Ford Coppola, shows a partially enacted friendly encounter between Sam Altman and Jony Ive.

Sam starts the video saying:

“I think we have the opportunity here to kind of completely reimagine what it means to use a computer,” and a minute later says: “We are sitting at the beginning of what I believe will be the greatest technological revolution of our lifetimes.”