OpenAI Recordsdata Trademark Utility for Humanoid Robots and VR Headsets

• OpenAI has filed a trademark utility for tech comparable to humanoid robots and AI-powered VR headsets.
• Sam Altman has hinted at OpenAI’s {hardware} ambitions however says a prototype may nonetheless be years away.
• The transfer may put OpenAI in competitors with Meta, Apple, and different AI-driven {hardware} gamers.

OpenAI has given extra indicators that it could be gearing up for an enormous {hardware} push.

The ChatGPT maker has filed a brand new trademark utility with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace that might trace at plans to develop humanoid robots, good wearables, and AI-powered digital and augmented actuality headsets​.

The applying additionally mentions smartwatches and good jewellery​.

Whereas corporations usually file wide-ranging emblems for concepts that by no means come to fruition, OpenAI’s utility comes as its CEO, Sam Altman, has been speaking up the corporate’s {hardware} plans.

On Monday, he advised Nikkei Asia that OpenAI desires to develop AI-powered client tech “via partnerships with a number of corporations.” Nevertheless, he cautioned that even a prototype may take “a number of years” to materialize​.

Altman added, “AI is a large enough shift in how we work together with computer systems that there should be a brand new type of {hardware}.”​

{Hardware} push

OpenAI’s trademark utility, submitted on January 31, lists “user-programmable humanoid robots” and “humanoid robots with communication and studying features.”

It comes as OpenAI rebuilds its robotics group, which it beforehand shut down in 2020. In November, OpenAI employed Caitlin Kalinowski, Meta’s former {hardware} lead, to guide the corporate’s robotics and client {hardware} efforts. Kalinowski, who oversaw the event of Orion, Meta’s prototype AR glasses, has beforehand mentioned she’s going to give attention to “bringing AI into the bodily world” via robotics and {hardware} partnerships.

In September, former Apple design chief Jony Ive confirmed that he is working with Altman on an AI-first client gadget as a part of a brand new enterprise.

Altman hasn’t offered specifics on how OpenAI plans to combine its AI fashions with its personal {hardware}, however the firm’s submitting suggests it’s laying the authorized groundwork for future developments.

A transfer into VR {hardware} would put OpenAI in competitors with Meta’s Quest and Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional, each of that are investing in AI-powered immersive experiences.

OpenAI, which has thus far been centered on software program, has additionally been linked to customized AI chip improvement, which may assist it cut back its reliance on Nvidia’s GPUs​.

OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to a Enterprise Insider request for remark.