Tech's past and future walk into a San Francisco cafe. That's the conceit behind a new video starring legendary Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who on Wednesday announced a $6.5 billion deal that will see the ChatGPT-maker gobble up Ive's nascent device startup.

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We find out from Ive that Altman is a “rare visionary.” We hear from Altman that Ive is “the deepest thinker over anyone [he’s] ever met.” We’re told by Altman that Ive’s design firm is the “densest collection of talent that I’ve ever heard of in one place and probably has ever existed in the world.

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OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two decades of Apple products.