Looking forward to ‘Open-io’: Google CEO Sundar Pichai lauds OpenAI-Jony Ive collab

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai headlined the AI-packed Google I/O event in Mountain View, California earlier this month. A few hours and 40-odd miles away in San Francisco, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and former iPhone designer Jony Ive announced a partnership for a novel AI device. In a recent interview with The Verge, Pichai said he is looking forward to the technology that will come out of this collaboration.

On May 21, OpenAI said it will buy and absorb Ive’s AI devices startup, io, in an all-equity deal worth $6.4 billion. Ive and his…