OpenAI has recently started hiring research engineers for a robotics team aimed at helping partners incorporate its multimodal AI into their hardware. This move comes four years after the startup disbanded its hardware research to focus on software. Several companies, including Apple and robotics company Figure, are already integrating OpenAI's models into their hardware.
Key takeaways:
- Caitlin Kalinowski, Meta’s former head of augmented reality hardware, has joined OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware.
- Kalinowski has previously worked at Apple and led the hardware team behind Meta’s virtual reality goggles for about nine years.
- She may possibly work with her former boss, ex-Apple executive Jony Ive, on a new AI hardware device that OpenAI and Ive’s startup, LoveFrom, are developing.
- OpenAI has recently started hiring research engineers for a robotics team, aimed at helping partners incorporate its multimodal AI into their hardware.