Multiple outlets report that Paul Meade, an Apple executive who leads hardware engineering for the Vision Pro, is leaving Apple to join OpenAI. The reports say Meade is a vice president within Apple’s Vision Products Group and has been involved in Vision Pro hardware for nearly a decade, according to some accounts. Several sources cite Bloomberg reporting and describe Meade’s move as the latest senior talent shift from Apple to OpenAI. The timing is described as soon, with at least one report saying he is expected to depart by next week and begin work at OpenAI’s hardware division shortly afterward.
The sources consistently state that Meade will join OpenAI’s team focused on building devices. Some articles frame the role as helping develop OpenAI’s upcoming AI-first consumer hardware, while others describe it more generally as OpenAI’s hardware unit for its next line of AI-powered devices. One outlet also claims Apple conducted a hardware engineering shake-up in which Meade was demoted, though the core point across all reports is that he is departing Apple for OpenAI’s devices effort.
