By James Peckham
Publication Date: 2026-02-10 15:51:00
OpenAI’s first hardware device will not be available until early 2027. We don’t know what the device will look like yet, but new documents say it will arrive in February next year.
The news was revealed in court proceedings as part of an ongoing trademark case brought by startup Iyo against OpenAI over its use of the name io for a startup it acquired from Jony Ive last year.
A previous court order banned OpenAI from using io and caused the ChatGPT maker to remove all mention of the name from its website. The new court file discovered by Wiredsays OpenAI will not use the name “io” or any variation of it for future gadgets.
An OpenAI representative said last month that the brand was on track to launch its first device before the end of 2026. That may still be true as it could announce its first device at the end of this year before launching it in early 2027.
OpenAI has not yet revealed any details about the AI device. In October the Financial Times I reported it…
