OpenAI Acquires Smartphone Camera Maker Glass Imaging For Over $300 Million
The deal puts camera-sensor and image-processing talent inside a company that has already bet on device hardware, including the Jony Ive venture io, so the acquisition reads as a supply-side move for whatever OpenAI ships next.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a Los Altos camera company founded in 2019, for more than $300 million. Glass Imaging develops GLASS AI, which improves image quality at the time of shooting by learning a target camera's aberrations and noise. Its Neural ISP is used in HONOR's HONOR 600. Co-founders Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop are former Apple engineers who led the team behind iPhone Portrait mode. TechCrunch says OpenAI had not responded to a request for comment.
Glass Imaging was founded in 2019 in Los Altos, California, by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, both former Apple engineers who led the team that developed iPhone Portrait mode. The company's GLASS AI takes a different route from the usual post-capture pipeline: it learns the specific aberrations and noise of a target smartphone camera and corrects for them while the shot is taken. A version of that work, the Neural ISP, is already in HONOR's HONOR 600. Glass Imaging had raised about $30 million from backers including GV and Insight Partners, and was valued at $100 million during its 2025 funding. OpenAI is paying more than three times that valuation in a deal reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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