If you are looking for a mention of Jony Ive or your startup IO on the Operai site, you abandon this idea: everything has been erased. In question, one complaint filed Iyo, another startup, which caused the page to disappear the association between the designer of the iPhone and Sam Altman.
The reason is quite simple: the two names (Io and Iyo) are strongly the same, but also their activities. The beginning is the source of the complaint, it also works in products that use artificial intelligence. One of them is also available for sale: these are headphones that can be used by VOICE and allow conversations in real time.
Confusing similarities between the two startups
Io, on the other hand, was purchased by Operai for $ 6.5 billion with the objective of … Make AI products and more particularly a device that would not have a screen and that would use the voice of its owner to carry out several shares. A similarity that raises questions for the judge who received the complaint, forcing Openai and to temporarily close the page talking about the repurchase.
In X, Operai also explained that he was going to think about this decision, which indicates “I do not agree with the complaint.” So we imagine that the company will attract.
In his complaint, Io also explains that he had approached the company behind Chatgpt in early 2025 to develop an association. Operai finally refused, before announcing the association with Jony Ive.
A spine on the foot that should not shake the company’s plans. Nothing prevents him from continuing “a family of products for all”, as explained in his press release of May 2025.
Source: BFM TV
