OpenAI led a $40M investment into Opal, the webcam company,

now pivoting to AI audio hardware.

Samsung and Peter Thiel also in. Valuation around $275M.

the device is already being tested by Sam Altman and researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. it supports switching between AI models, which is the interesting part.

launching in 3 to 4 months. worth keeping an eye on.