OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
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OpenAI has acquired camera manufacturer Glass Imaging for over $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Glass Imaging was founded in 2019 by two former Apple engineers, Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who previously led the development of Apple's Portrait Mode. The company uses AI and neural networks to improve smartphone photography by learning about different camera systems and delivering better images at the moment the shutter clicks — rather than through post-processing. OpenAI is rumored to be working on its own hardware including smartphones, earbuds, and AI devices.
Glass Imaging uses neural networks to learn about individual camera systems — like the different cameras on various smartphone models — to yield better images from the moment the shutter clicks.
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