New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- Earlier this year, OpenAI announced its partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive by acquiring his startup IO. The ChatGPT maker also confirmed its intention to work on a new hardware based device which would be different from a smartphone and could be an AI native device.

While the company hasn't given much details about what this device could be, there has been growing speculation on what the ChatGPT powered hardware could look like. A new leak from tipster Smart Pikachu on X (formerly Twitter) suggests that the new hardware product from OpenAI is internally referred to as Gumdrop. The tipster also suggests that the AI startup has a total of 3 projects in 'vendor evaluation', one of which could be a pen whil...