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 accumulate Ive and Altman’s machine startup io) from its web site and YouTube web page.
Does that counsel one thing is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to steer design work at OpenAI? Not precisely, based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who reviews that the “deal is on observe and has NOT dissolved or something of the type.” As a substitute, he stated a choose has issued a restraining order over the io identify, forcing the corporate to tug all supplies that used it.
And certainly, an earlier report at Bloomberg Legislation famous that AI machine maker IYO has introduced a trademark lawsuit towards OpenAI, with the choose suggesting she’s open to IYO’s argument that OpenAI’s promotional video would possibly already be creating shopper confusion.
TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for remark. For now, at the least, the video stays viewable on X.
