OpenAI seems to have pulled a much-discussed video selling the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, by the way, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to amass Ive and Altman’s system startup io) from its web site and YouTube web page.
Does that recommend one thing is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to steer design work at OpenAI? Not precisely, in accordance with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who stories that the “deal is on observe and has NOT dissolved or something of the kind.” As a substitute, he mentioned a decide has issued a restraining order over the io identify, forcing the corporate to drag all supplies that used it.
And certainly, an earlier report at Bloomberg Regulation famous that AI system maker IYO has introduced a trademark lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI, with the decide suggesting she’s open to IYO’s argument that OpenAI’s promotional video may already be creating shopper confusion.
Trendster has reached out to OpenAI for remark. For now, at the least, the video stays viewable on X.