OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for $300 Million as It Pushes AI Cameras Into Compact Devices
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Updated · CTech · Sep 15
OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for $300 Million as It Pushes AI Cameras Into Compact Devices
3 articles · Updated · CTech · Sep 15
Summary
$300 million is the reported price OpenAI paid for Glass Imaging, the 2019 startup founded by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop to improve camera performance with AI.
Glass's technology aims to let smaller, cheaper camera modules produce higher-quality images by modeling optics and sensors in detail, then using neural networks to correct noise, blur and other defects.
That approach could solve a key hardware problem for OpenAI: giving compact consumer devices strong imaging capabilities without large or complex camera systems.
Attar previously sold LinX to Apple for $25 million in 2015, and its multi-camera work helped lead to iPhone Portrait Mode, underscoring why Glass's imaging expertise may matter beyond photography.