{"id":514415,"date":"2026-06-28T00:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514415\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:31:11","slug":"apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514415\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI\u2019s hardware team, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-26\/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai\" target=\"_blank\">according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/12\/apple-reportedly-testing-four-designs-for-upcoming-smart-glasses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple plans to launch next year<\/a>. The costly Vision Pro was not a hit, but Apple is hoping that more affordable smart glasses will <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/02\/apple-shelves-vision-pro-overhaul-to-focus-on-ai-glasses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">help it compete with wearable devices from Meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gurman frames this departure as a byproduct of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/20\/who-is-john-ternus-the-incoming-apple-ceo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Ternus\u2019 imminent elevation to Apple CEO<\/a>, and of Ternus\u2019 decision to shake up the hardware engineering team, which left some of the company\u2019s vice presidents feeling like they\u2019d been demoted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI, meanwhile, is already working with Apple\u2019s former chief design officer Jony Ive on an AI device that CEO Sam Altman has claimed will be <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/24\/altman-describes-openais-forthcoming-ai-device-as-more-peaceful-and-calm-than-the-iphone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more peaceful and calm than an iPhone<\/a>, though reports last fall suggested the company was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/05\/openai-and-jony-ive-may-be-struggling-to-figure-out-their-ai-device\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggling to get the details right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,670,343,344,85,46,1748,235812,125],"class_list":["post-514415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-openai","tag-paul-meade","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}