Paul Meade, the Apple vice chairman accountable for the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, is leaving the corporate to affix OpenAI’s {hardware} crew, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Meade additionally reportedly led the event of the AI-powered sensible glasses that Apple plans to launch subsequent yr. The expensive Imaginative and prescient Professional was not successful, however Apple is hoping that extra reasonably priced sensible 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’ choice to shake up the {hardware} engineering crew, 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 system that CEO Sam Altman has claimed can be extra peaceable and calm than an iPhone, although studies final fall urged the corporate was struggling to get the small print proper.
TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for remark.