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OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
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OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Glass Imaging, founded in 2019 by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors.
- In Brief Posted: 1:44 PM PDT · September 14, 2026 Image Credits:YIN WENJIE / Getty Images OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
- The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors.
- Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple’s Portrait Mode.
Key Takeaways
- The company was founded in 2019
- Glass Imaging had raised $30 million in funding prior to the acquisition
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- Potential integration of Glass Imaging technology into OpenAI products
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The acquisition could enhance OpenAI's capabilities in computer vision and smartphone camera technology
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- 49m agoHacker News (XX): Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.
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