Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

In Brief

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president successful complaint of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the institution to articulation OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Meade besides reportedly led the improvement of the AI-powered astute glasses that Apple plans to motorboat adjacent year. The costly Vision Pro was not a hit, but Apple is hoping that much affordable astute glasses volition help it vie with wearable devices from Meta.

Gurman frames this departure arsenic a byproduct of John Ternus’ imminent elevation to Apple CEO, and of Ternus’ determination to shingle up the hardware engineering team, which near immoderate of the company’s vice presidents feeling similar they’d been demoted.

OpenAI, meanwhile, is already moving with Apple’s erstwhile main plan serviceman Jony Ive connected an AI instrumentality that CEO Sam Altman has claimed volition beryllium more peaceful and calm than an iPhone, though reports past autumn suggested the institution was struggling to get the details right.

TechCrunch has reached retired to Apple and OpenAI for comment.

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