# OpenAI reveals doughnut-shaped AI smart speaker priced $300-400, launching 2027

> OpenAI's long-teased hardware finally has a shape, and it is an odd one. According to Bloomberg, the company's first device is a portable, battery-powered speaker roughly the size of a hockey puck, ring or doughnut shaped, with cameras and microphones for sensing its surroundings and small moving parts that signal when the AI is listening or active. There is no screen. It is meant to be picked up and carried from room to room, priced somewhere between $300 and $400, and is not expected to ship until 2027. The product is the first real fruit of OpenAI's roughly $6.4 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's io Products in 2025, and it reads as an attempt to give ChatGPT a physical home that is not a phone. The bet is that ambient, always-available voice AI wants its own object rather than an app icon. Whether people want cameras and a listening puck on the kitchen counter is the open question, and a 2027 date leaves plenty of room for rivals to answer first.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Bloomberg · Published Friday, August 7, 2026_

## Wortins' read

OpenAI's long-teased hardware finally has a shape, and it is an odd one. According to Bloomberg, the company's first device is a portable, battery-powered speaker roughly the size of a hockey puck, ring or doughnut shaped, with cameras and microphones for sensing its surroundings and small moving parts that signal when the AI is listening or active. There is no screen. It is meant to be picked up and carried from room to room, priced somewhere between $300 and $400, and is not expected to ship until 2027. The product is the first real fruit of OpenAI's roughly $6.4 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's io Products in 2025, and it reads as an attempt to give ChatGPT a physical home that is not a phone. The bet is that ambient, always-available voice AI wants its own object rather than an app icon. Whether people want cameras and a listening puck on the kitchen counter is the open question, and a 2027 date leaves plenty of room for rivals to answer first.

## Source

[Read the full story at Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-openai-s-device-a-doughnut-shaped-speaker-that-costs-over-300)

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