Your smartphone has a pile of apps. OpenAI wants to replace all of them with one AI agent that just gets things done. That’s the vision behind the company’s plans to build its own smartphone, complete with a custom processor co-developed with MediaTek and Qualcomm, as first reported by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on X.
And Sam Altman seems to agree. In a post on X, the OpenAI CEO wrote, “feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed.” That is not a subtle hint.
feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed
(also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)
— Sam Altman (@sama) April 26, 2026
Why would OpenAI want to make a phone?
We have seen earlier attempts at developing truly agentic AI in the
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