Paul Meade leaves Apple for OpenAI: a hardware brain drain or a strategic pivot?
paul meade, apple's vision pro vp, is joining openai’s hardware team. this signals openai's aggressive push to build proprietary ai devices and intensifies competition with apple in wearable tech.
paul meade, the apple vice president responsible for the vision pro headset, is departing for openai's hardware team. he played a key role in developing the ai-powered smart glasses apple plans to launch next year. the exit coincides with a restructuring by apple’s incoming ceo john ternus. for openai, hiring a senior hardware executive accelerates its plans to build consumer devices, alongside its existing partnership with jony ive.