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💰OpenAI Eyes $500M MegaDeal

💰OpenAI Eyes $500M MegaDeal

PLUS: Meta unveils Llama 4 models 🦙

Pradeep Pandey
April 07, 2025

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Today’s AI Insights:

OpenAI eyes $500M acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI device startup
Meta unveils Llama 4 models
OpenAI shifts GPT-5 plans
Midjourney V7 arrives with major upgrades
Microsoft unveils AI-generated Quake II demo
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OPENAI

💰OpenAI Eyes $500M Acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI Device Startup

Image source: The Information

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to acquire io Products, the AI hardware company co-founded by Apple’s former design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The move could mark OpenAI’s first major foray into consumer hardware.

The Details:

The startup, io Products, is a collaboration between Jony Ive and Sam Altman, aimed at building AI-first devices that are “less socially disruptive than the iPhone.”
OpenAI is considering a $500 million acquisition, though a partnership instead of a buyout is still on the table, according to The Information.
io Products has backing from Emerson Collective, led by Laurene Powell Jobs, and includes former Apple designers Tang Tan and Evans Hankey on the team.
The company is reportedly prototyping AI-native hardware like smart home devices — but details remain scarce.
Ive and Altman’s vision centers around human-centric AI interfaces, possibly blending design with ambient computing in a way not yet seen in the industry.

Why it matters:

If acquired, io Products could become OpenAI’s answer to Apple’s iPhone moment — tightly integrating AI with beautifully designed, consumer-facing hardware. With Jony Ive’s design legacy and Altman’s AI clout, this partnership could reshape how we interact with intelligent machines in the real world.

🦙 Meta unveils Llama 4 models

Image Source: Meta

Meta has officially launched its next-gen open-weight models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — claiming they’re its most advanced yet. The company also teased Llama 4 Behemoth, designed to serve as a “teacher” model for future AI development.

The Details:

Llama 4 Scout and Maverick are multimodal AI models, able to process and generate content across text, audio, video, and images.
Both models are open source, reinforcing Meta’s commitment to transparent AI development and wider research access.
Meta previewed Llama 4 Behemoth, calling it “one of the smartest LLMs in the world,” built to train and guide smaller models.
The new models reportedly outperform previous Llama versions in general benchmarks but were delayed due to underwhelming performance in reasoning and math — and trailing OpenAI in conversational voice tasks.
Meta plans to invest up to $65 billion this year to strengthen its AI infrastructure, seeking to close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Why it matters:

The release puts Meta back in the AI spotlight with serious open-source firepower. While Scout and Maverick set new standards for public models, Behemoth signals Meta’s ambitions to build frontier-level systems — and possibly challenge OpenAI at the top.

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AI & TECH NEWS

OpenAI has updated its roadmap: instead of a direct GPT-5 launch, it will first release the o3 reasoning model and o4-mini in the coming weeks. GPT-5 is slightly delayed to improve reasoning integration and prep infrastructure for broader deployment.

Midjourney has launched V7 in alpha—its biggest update in a year. It improves image quality, coherence, and prompt accuracy, adds voice interaction, and debuts Draft Mode for 10x faster, cheaper generations. Personalization unlocks after rating 200 images.

Microsoft released a real-time, browser-based demo of Quake II, fully generated by its Muse AI model. While visuals are blurrier than the 1997 original, the demo highlights Muse’s ability to render dynamic environments and gameplay in real time, marking a leap in AI-driven game design.

DeepSeek teamed up with Tsinghua University to launch DeepSeek-GRM, blending two reasoning methods for sharper logic and faster answers. The models outperform rivals in aligning with human preferences—and will be open-sourced soon.

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