Apple Vision Pro's top exec is heading to OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI's hardware team.

Meade has been the public face of Apple's spatial computing effort since the headset launched. He's been pushing the Vision Pro as a serious computing platform — positioning it for developers, creators, and enterprise users, not just as a consumer gadget.

OpenAI's hardware push is part of a broader push by AI companies to control the devices where their models live. ChatGPT's already on phones and tablets. The Vision Pro could be the next frontier — a head-mounted computer where AI agents can actually see and interact with the world. Meade's departure signals that OpenAI sees spatial computing as the next battleground for AI, not just an Apple problem.

Why this matters for us: As AI moves into our glasses and headsets, the companies building that hardware will shape how we interact with the models we rely on for work, schooling, and daily life.