Company
io Products
American AI hardware design company
io Products, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence hardware company founded in 2024 by Jony Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan. The company was acquired by OpenAI in May 2025 to lead its hardware product development.
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“io Products, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence hardware company founded in 2024 by Jony Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.”
Named in 2 pieces
Consumer AI
Consumer AI at Scale
ChatGPT crossed 900 million weekly users and started running ads while Apple ceded Siri's rebuild to a rival's model, showing three different theories of who owns the AI relationship once assistants graduate from answering into deciding.
Capital & Markets
The Year of the Acqui-Hire
OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and Cognition spent a combined tens of billions in 2025 and 2026 buying companies mainly to secure the specific people running them, a pattern regulators are only beginning to name.