According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has hired Paul Meade, who had been in charge of Apple Vision Pro and Apple’s smart glasses initiative. Here are the details.
OpenAI’s poaching of Apple designer continues
Last year, OpenAI announced it would join forces with Jony Ive and several LoveFrom designers to form io, a subsidiary that would release AI-first hardware.
Around the same time, news broke that OpenAI kept poaching current and former Apple designers and engineers, who were joining Ive’s team to develop AI-powered hardware. That includes longtime Ive collaborators Evans Hankey, who led Apple’s design for 3 years after Ive left, and Tang Ten.
Although things had been quiet on that front, Bloomberg reports that OpenAI has hired Pal Meade, Apple’s “top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and the company’s smart glasses efforts.”
