Paul Meade, Apple vice president overseeing the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI‘s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Meade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses Apple plans to launch next year. The expensive 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.
OpenAI, meanwhile, is already working with Apple’s former chief design officer Jony Ive on an AI device that CEO Sam Altman has claimed will be more peaceful and calm than an iPhone, though reports last fall suggested the company was struggling to get the details right.
* OpenAI is collaborating with Jony Ive on the new hardware
* The new device aims to be calmer than an iPhone
* Gurman links the move to internal restructuring under John Ternus
