{"slug": "apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai", "title": "Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI", "summary": "Apple vice president Paul Meade, who led the Vision Pro headset and smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's hardware team. The departure follows John Ternus' impending promotion to Apple CEO and a restructuring that left some executives feeling demoted. OpenAI is already working with former Apple design chief Jony Ive on an AI device.", "body_md": "Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team, [according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai).\n\nMeade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses that [Apple plans to launch next year](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/apple-reportedly-testing-four-designs-for-upcoming-smart-glasses/). The costly Vision Pro was not a hit, but Apple is hoping that more affordable smart glasses will [help it compete with wearable devices from Meta](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/apple-shelves-vision-pro-overhaul-to-focus-on-ai-glasses/).\n\nGurman frames this departure as a byproduct of [John Ternus’ imminent elevation to Apple CEO](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/who-is-john-ternus-the-incoming-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.\n\nOpenAI, 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](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/altman-describes-openais-forthcoming-ai-device-as-more-peaceful-and-calm-than-the-iphone/), though reports last fall suggested the company was [struggling to get the details right](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/openai-and-jony-ive-may-be-struggling-to-figure-out-their-ai-device/).\n\nTechCrunch has reached out to Apple and OpenAI for comment.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai/", "published_at": "2026-06-27 16:45:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-27 17:11:14.682159+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Apple", "OpenAI", "Paul Meade", "John Ternus", "Jony Ive", "Sam Altman", "Vision Pro", "Bloomberg"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai.jsonld"}}