OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a household name after the release of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model, ChatGPT.

The idea is a “chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,” Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday.

It is tempting to see this week’s attempt by OpenAI to plant its flag in the consumer hardware business as a similar challenge to another tech empire: Apple. As he announced the purchase of io, a tech hardware start-up co-founded by Jony Ive,

A group of global tech giants gathered in Abu Dhabi to pose for a photo as an AI supergroup, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison, Nvidia’s (NVDA) Jensen Huang, and Chuck Robbins of Cisco (CSCO),

OpenAI, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) , SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF) and G42 are collaborating to build Stargate UAE. In January, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle's Co-Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison joined U.