The new Openai trademark app for humanoid robots, smart jewelry and others

Last Friday, AI Startup Openai submitted a new application to trademark products Related to his brand – “Openai” – with the Patent and Trademarks Service in the United States (USPTO). Usually this would not be news. Companies submit trademarks all the time. But in the OpenAi app, it hints at new product lines both closer and more clear.

For example, the submission lists hardware, including headsets, glasses, glasses, distance, laptop and telephone covers, smart watches, intelligent jewelry and virtual and sophisticated reality headphones “for AI-Assisted Interactions, Simulation and Training.”

OPENAI Last year confirmed That he works with former Apple designer Johnny Ive on hardware said to the Korean output Elec This Openai hopes to develop consumer hardware -powered consumer hardware, “through partnerships with multiple companies.” But in the same interview, Altman warned that it would take a few years to even finish the prototype AI device.

The Openai trademark app also mentions robots-special “User Programmable Humanoid Robots” and “Humanoid Robots that have functions for communication and training to support and entertain people.”

Openai recently started hiring for a new robotics team led by Caitlin Kalinovski, who affiliated Starting to lead hardware last November from AR GLASSES Division of Meta. According to job ads and ReportingOpenai is looking to test robots-essential humanoid in form-fed by personalized sensors and AI that can work with intelligence similar to human in real settings.

Further, in its submission, OPENAI makes references to personalized AI chips and services for “using quantum computing resources to optimize the performance of the AI ​​model”.

There have been rumors for a long time that Openai is creating personalized chips to launch its AI models. The company There is a division focused on co -designing chip componentsand Reports suggest OPENAI aims to provide a personalized chip on the market with broadcom and TSMC semiconductor manufacturers in 2026.

Openai’s plans for quantum calculations – assuming that there is a set in stone – they are more dark. But last year, the launch added to its technical team a former quantum systems architect at the Quantum Computing Startup Psiquantum.

Registry marked in a piece of MarchQuantum Computing has the potential to dramatically improve the efficiency of training AI models thanks to its ability to perform a huge number of calculations at the same time. With AI’s computing costs, which show no signs of descent soon, maybe Openai sees a future in the hardware training models of the hardware -friendly different from the machines it rely on today.

Then again, reservations are often deliberately written in order to be wide and not necessarily indicative of the company’s product card. Openai may disclose the domains that launch explores – or at least has considered studying. But exactly when – or whether any of the technologies mentioned in the submission do it on the market is someone’s assumption.

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