ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in discussions with former Apple designer Jony Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence,” using by more than $1 billion in funding from the Japanese conglomerate, Financial Times reported on Thursday. Jonathan Ive Matthew Garrahan, Tim Bradshaw, Madhumita Murgia, and Kana Inagaki for Financial Times: Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief, has tapped Ive’s company LoveFrom, which the designer founded when he left Apple in 2019, to develop the ChatGPT creator’s first consumer device, according to three people familiar with the plan. Altman and Ive have held brainstorming sessions at the designer’s San Francisco studio about what a new consumer product centered on OpenAI’s technology would look like, the people said. They…