Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Key takeaways
- Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join Open AI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
- Meade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses that Apple plans to launch next year.
- TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for comment.
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Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join Open AI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Meade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses that Apple plans to launch next year. The costly Vision Pro was not a hit, but Apple is hoping that more affordable smart 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’ decision to shake up the hardware engineering team, which left some of the company’s vice presidents feeling like they’d been demoted.