Tech's past and future walk into a San Francisco cafe. That's the conceit behind a new video starring legendary Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who on Wednesday announced a $6.5 billion deal that will see the ChatGPT-maker gobble up Ive's nascent device startup.

The San Francisco-based maker of ChatGPT is paying nearly $6.5 billion for Ive’s company, OpenAI said. The deal does not include LoveFrom, Ive’s design firm. OpenAI said that Ive will be working closely with OpenAI, but he won’t be joining the company.

We find out from Ive that Altman is a “rare visionary.” We hear from Altman that Ive is “the deepest thinker over anyone [he’s] ever met.” We’re told by Altman that Ive’s design firm is the “densest collection of talent that I’ve ever heard of in one place and probably has ever existed in the world.

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Jony Ive, the famed designer who joined Steve Jobs to develop Apple’s most popular products, will now curate new devices for OpenAI after his startup was acquired by Sam Altman’s firm earlier this week,