Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI - BERITAJA

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

Meade besides reportedly led the improvement of the AI-powered smart glasses that Apple plans to motorboat adjacent year. The costly Vision Pro was not a hit, but Apple is hoping that much affordable smart glasses will help it compete pinch 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 emotion for illustration they’d been demoted.

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

TechCrunch has reached retired to Apple and OpenAI for comment.

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