OpenAI is building their own smartphone. And before you get excited, let me tell you exactly why I think this is a mistake. Every tech company that tried to own the hardware layer for their AI or platform ended up with an expensive lesson. Facebook did it. Amazon did it. Humane and Rabbit just did it. None of them survived contact with the real world. The reason OpenAI wants this phone is simple. Apple and Android will never give them full access to your camera, your location, your payments. And that access is what makes AI actually useful in daily life. So instead of playing by someone else’s rules, they want to own the game. Smart thinking. Wrong execution. Building a phone is not a software problem. It is a trust problem. People do not switch phones because the AI is better. They switch because their friends use it, their apps work on it, and they have used it for 5 years already. OpenAI has none of that gravity yet. What I think is actually happening here is that GPT-5 did not create the gap they needed. The model race is getting tighter, not wider. So the move now is to build a hardware moat before someone else does. That is a fear-based strategy, not a product strategy. The AI that wins in the next 5 years will not be the one on a separate device. It will be the one that disappears into the phone you already carry. Now tell me where I am wrong. submitted by /u/pretendingMadhav
Originally posted by u/pretendingMadhav on r/ArtificialInteligence
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