OpenAI acquires smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million

OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal valued at over $300 million, according to reports. The startup, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, previously raised $30 million in funding. Glass Imaging was established by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who previously led the team behind Apple’s Portrait Mode. Their work focuses on using neural networks to overcome physical size constraints in smartphone cameras, enabling superior image quality at the moment of capture rather than through post-processing. While OpenAI has not commented on the deal, the company is rumored to be developing its own hardware, including smartphones, earbuds, and AI companion devices. This follows OpenAI's previous acquisition of Jony Ive’s startup for $6.5 billion in 2025.