Paul Meade spent seven years leading the hardware engineering behind Vision Pro and Apple's smart glasses work. He's leaving Apple next week for OpenAI's hardware team. Apple chip boss Johny Srouji took over as chief hardware officer and reorganized the team, pushing Meade and other VPs down a level to report to a new VP instead of directly to him. At OpenAI, he joins Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey, whose hardware startup OpenAI bought for $6.5 billion. Fletcher Rothkopf takes over Meade's role as Apple pushes toward a late-2027 smart glasses launch under incoming CEO John Ternus.