New Delhi, May 26 -- Jony Ive, the mastermind behind the iconic design of Apple's iPhone, has joined Sam Altman's OpenAI to create devices tailored for using generative artificial intelligence, as per a statement by the ChatGPT maker.

Jony Ive and his team will take over design at OpenAI as part of an acquisition of his startup named "IO" valued at $6.5 billion.

As Ive ventures into a new future, having quit Apple two years ago, here is everything you need to know about him.

British-born Jony Ive had been an Apple employee since 1992, and joined the US company after he graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic, now Northumbria University, in the UK. He began his career by starting his own design firm named Tangerine , according to the epony...