OpenAI buys Glass Imaging, adding iPhone camera veterans to its hardware push
Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop built iPhone Portrait Mode technology before creating a neural image processor valued above $300M in OpenAI's deal.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
Primary source: The Wall Street Journal
Why it matters
OpenAI is buying the imaging layer between a camera sensor and a multimodal model. Glass Imaging gives its hardware group proven on-device vision technology and founders who built core iPhone camera features.
OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, founded by former Apple camera engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, in recent months in a deal valuing Glass Imaging above $300 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on September 14th.…
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