OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

OpenAI has reportedly bought Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology startup, for about $300 million. The company was founded by two former Apple engineers who helped lead development of Apple’s Portrait Mode.

The deal suggests OpenAI may be deepening its interest in computer vision and camera-native AI experiences. Acquiring talent with proven mobile imaging expertise could support future consumer hardware, multimodal AI products, or partnerships around smarter image capture.