Apple's iPhone design director, Evans Hankey, has joined Jony Ive's LoveFrom to develop artificial intelligence hardware in collaboration with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The project is referred to as the 'AI iPhone' and is funded by SoftBank, with Jony Ive and Hankey responsible for the design while Sam Altman handles software development. The concepts currently being discussed by LoveFrom include home devices that may resemble the HomePod, but specific details have not been disclosed.