Paul Meade, the Apple vice president responsible for the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team, according to TechCrunch AI.
The move represents a significant executive departure for Apple’s spatial computing division. Meade held a leadership position overseeing the Vision Pro, Apple’s mixed reality headset that launched earlier this year. His reported transition to OpenAI suggests the AI company is continuing to build out its hardware capabilities, though specific details about his role at OpenAI were not disclosed in the report.
The news comes as OpenAI has been expanding beyond its software roots, with the company previously exploring various hardware initiatives. Apple has not publicly commented on Meade’s departure, and the timing of the transition was not specified in the report.