OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's io

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OpenAI bought Jony Ive's company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion .

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski tweeted that his family investment office, Flat Capital , had bought shares in io six months earlier .

The post generated so much interest that his investment firm issued a public statement confirming that io was the mystery, unnamed company it backed when it announced its investments in a “mini-portfolio” of US AI companies.

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