OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for over $300 million
TechCrunch (citing WSJ, corroborated by The Information and SiliconANGLE)·medium signal
The Wall Street Journal reported on 14 September that OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, a Los Altos company founded in 2019 by ex-Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who led the team behind Apple's Portrait Mode. Glass Imaging trains neural networks on individual camera systems to improve images at capture time rather than editing afterward, and had raised about $30 million. It follows the $6.5 billion all-stock io Products deal in May 2025 and dozens of Apple hires, and reads as OpenAI buying the capture end of a device stack.