Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Paul Meade, the Apple vp in command of the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, is leaving the corporate to hitch OpenAI’s {hardware} workforce, in line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Meade additionally reportedly led the event of the AI-powered good glasses that Apple plans to launch subsequent 12 months. The pricey Imaginative and prescient Professional was not successful, however Apple is hoping that extra inexpensive good glasses will assist it compete with wearable gadgets from Meta.
Gurman frames this departure as a byproduct of John Ternus’ imminent elevation to Apple CEO, and of Ternus’ resolution to shake up the {hardware} engineering workforce, which left among the firm’s vice presidents feeling like they’d been demoted.
OpenAI, in the meantime, is already working with Apple’s former chief design officer Jony Ive on an AI machine that CEO Sam Altman has claimed might be extra peaceable and calm than an iPhone, although reviews final fall recommended the corporate was struggling to get the main points proper.
TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for remark.
