OpenAI paid over $300m for a startup that sharpens phone photos.
OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The startup, founded in 2019, trains a neural network for each camera it supports. Its founders are former Apple engineers who led the team behind Portrait Mode.
Why it mattersOpenAI keeps buying the parts of a phone it has not announced yet. The camera may be how its first device sees your world.
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