OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

The rise of artificial intelligence has profoundly altered the technology world in recent years, upending how software is created, how people search for information, and how images and videos can be generated — all with a few prompts to a chatbot.

What the technology has yet to do, though, is find a preferred form in a physical, everyday gadget. A.I. largely remains the domain of an app on phones, despite efforts by start-ups and others to move it into devices.

Now OpenAI, the world’s…