OpenAI is “very interested” in building ChatGPT integrations for wearable devices

OpenAI has been facing a firestorm lately: a A rogue agent hacks a face huggera lawsuit filed by Apple accusing OpenAI of Theft of trade secretsAnd the ongoing anger over artificial intelligence and Artificial intelligence devices in generalhe has more IPO delayed.

In the midst of all this, Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, spoke to reporters in New York on Thursday to discuss the company’s latest AI plans and recent events. But he also dropped some hints about the company’s aspirations in wearables and hardware, and where it might overlap with some of ChatGPT’s voice-focused developments. This will not only be done through OpenAI’s own hardware, but expect others Smart glasses And wearables to finally get better access as well.

demonstration for GBT Live Chat – Newly improved voice interface allows for smoother speaking, listening, and interrupting in ways similar to those offered by Anthropic New voice modes for Claudeand Meta Moses Spark – It led to discussions about OpenAI trying to create a voice assistant like Iron Man’s AI agent, Jarvis. And if the goal is a live assistant/agent to do everything, will that agent be able to jump outside of ChatGPT to control other applications as well?

That’s exactly the plan, Brockman said, similar to how OpenAI’s Codex already allows agent control of entire computers.

“(ChatGPT Live) is associated with Codex, but it doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t really make sense for it to be,” he said. “And if you think about it, Codex could also make full use of the computer, which would be pretty good too.”

This means that a lot of the manual keyboard work that we humans used to do could be taken over by AI.

“I think we’ll realize that this phase of us, like clicking and typing things, was a phase,” he said. “It was never what we wanted it to be.”

Which leads to questions about where to build guardrails to prevent incidents like a rogue OpenAI agent’s cyberattack on Hugging Face, a New York-based AI software company, this week, where an OpenAI agent broke out of an experimental sandbox and began working on a repository of Hugging Face’s AI tools.

Deeper OpenAI tools for wearables on the way?

But what’s interesting to me is how currently wearable AI devices, like smart glasses, lack AI agents that are truly capable of doing anything beyond limited interactions with installed phone apps, something that may change soon when… Google and Samsung launch their Gemini-powered glasses This fall. This is also changing quickly, though: Meta just introduced one of its own features The first Muse Spark agent updates Friday.

OpenAI has been rumored to have hardware in its development mix for years, which may now be stalled due to… Apple suitwhich alleges that former Apple employees who now work at OpenAI stole hardware trade secrets. But it’s clear that, whatever Jarvis’s ambitions for OpenAI, its hardware will be a key part of her evolving vision of what a freer world could look like.

“We’re definitely very interested in integrations, and I would like to look at it as an API use case and deploy it so anyone can integrate it,” Brockman told me at the Journalism Roundtable in New York.

Brockman emphasized that OpenAI very much wants to make these moves, but right now, these potential APIs are still in the very early stages. “We believe this should be the interface and should be available on all devices.”

New APIs are needed because wearables involve different types of access and interfaces than phones and laptops, and often need to run in the background on the phones the wearables are paired with. Multimodal input opportunities such as camera access are also key to how most smart glasses now leverage AI.

Of today’s smart glasses and wearable AI devices, almost none have deep direct integration with multiple AI platforms in ways that can allow for the kind of more comprehensive controls that mobile and desktop AI apps have.

It’s also worth noting that most of the major business-focused AI platforms aren’t on wearables yet. Gemini is on its way to Android XR glasses, but OpenAI and Anthropic remain out of the wearables picture. some Wearables use OpenAI models For their own custom or anonymous tools, but it’s not the same as direct access to ChatGPT or Codex via user accounts.

OpenAI devices will take a unique path

But Brockman also noted that OpenAI’s own hardware plans could be very different from what’s already in wearables, calling it “a solution to a problem that we think is neglected, to a problem that we care a lot about, and that we think will be representative of the overall direction (of AI),” adding that OpenAI has “a specific angle that we think might not be served otherwise.”

Reports indicate that this is the first device A type of speaker equipped with a semi-automatic camera. Maybe it will also have some sort of visual recognition, like OpenAI World IDwhich is also found on the strange Orb iris scanning device. Perhaps, at the same time, OpenAI is looking to open its services to wearable devices like pendants and glasses as well.

Before any of these problems happen, there are also a lot of existing AI-related issues that need to be resolved — privacy, safety, resource drain, economic viability, issues of government involvement, and a major lawsuit. but Wearable AI devices in 2026 It is already progressing rapidly, even in the face of adverse challenges such as these.