The Short Version
Paul Meade, who led Vision Pro and smart glasses hardware at Apple since 2017, is leaving to join OpenAI's hardware team alongside Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey.
Paul Meade spent nearly a decade leading the hardware engineering behind Vision Pro and Apple's smart glasses work, and now he's joining OpenAI's hardware team, which already includes former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and ex-Apple executives Tang Tan and Evans Hankey. That's a serious concentration of Apple's former hardware talent in one place. Back at Apple, Fletcher Rothkopf takes over as the company pivots toward display-free smart glasses and AI wearables under a newly reorganized leadership structure with John Ternus as CEO.