# Sam and Jony

Source: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Sam-and-Jony?index=0x682e170012c014da3c449690fa7e5a06139dadf5e8ea0296bf0e8aaff685bed20b56d4ac
Submitted by tim on 2025-05-21 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

The io Products, Inc. team has officially merged with OpenAI, and Jony Ive and LoveFrom, which remain independent, have taken on deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI. Ive and LoveFrom began quietly collaborating with Sam Altman and the OpenAI team two years before the May 21, 2025 announcement, and Ive founded io one year earlier with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan. The io team, which gathered hardware and software engineers, technologists and researchers, will now work more closely with OpenAI's research, engineering and product teams in San Francisco.