Paul Meade, the Apple vice chairman in command of the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, is leaving the corporate to affix OpenAI’s {hardware} workforce, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Meade additionally reportedly led the event of the AI-powered sensible glasses that Apple plans to launch next year. The pricey Imaginative and prescient Professional was not a success, however Apple is hoping that extra reasonably priced sensible glasses will help it compete with wearable devices from Meta.
Gurman frames this departure as a byproduct of John Ternus’ imminent elevation to Apple CEO, and of Ternus’ choice to shake up the {hardware} engineering workforce, which left a few of 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 will probably be more peaceful and calm than an iPhone, although reviews final fall steered the corporate was struggling to get the details right.
TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for remark.
