OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for Over $300 Million as Hardware Push Expands
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Updated · TechCrunch · Sep 14
OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for Over $300 Million as Hardware Push Expands
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Sep 14
Summary
More than $300 million bought OpenAI smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging, the Wall Street Journal reported, adding imaging technology to the ChatGPT maker’s growing device ambitions.
Glass Imaging, founded in 2019 in Los Altos, uses neural networks tuned to specific camera systems to improve photos at capture, aiming to offset the physical limits of small smartphone sensors.
Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop — former Apple engineers who helped develop Portrait Mode — founded the company, which had previously raised about $30 million from investors.
The deal fits broader signs OpenAI is building hardware beyond software; Sam Altman and Jony Ive last year disclosed their io device venture before OpenAI bought Ive’s company for $6.5 billion.