OpenAI buys "smart" camera developer Glass Imaging for $300+ million, another step toward its own device
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An SI assistant needs eyes: OpenAI is assembling a team so that its future devices see the world as well as an iPhone camera.
According to the WSJ, OpenAI will pay more than $300 million for a startup founded by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, the authors of the iPhone's Portrait mode. Glass Imaging improves a shot with a neural network at the moment of capture, adapting to the specific camera; its technology already powers the zoom in Honor smartphones. The purchase is linked to the development of OpenAI's own devices after it acquired Jony Ive's company for $6.5 billion.
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