PANews reported on May 22 that according to an OpenAI announcement, OpenAI will acquire io, an AI device company founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, for $6.4 billion, pushing it into the hardware field. After the transaction is completed, Ive and his team LoveFrom will be fully responsible for the creative design work of OpenAI and io. This acquisition is the largest in OpenAI's history and integrates top software and hardware engineering and design forces.