Overview
Los Altos smartphone camera AI startup founded 2019 by ex-apple Portrait Mode engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop. ~$30M raised prior to acquisition.
Recent Developments
- 2026-09-14: Reportedly acquired by openai for >$300M per WSJ; neither company publicly confirmed (2026-09-14-openai-acquires-glass-imaging, 2026-09-14-wsj-openai-glass-imaging)
Deal not officially confirmed by OpenAI or Glass Imaging as of analysis date.
- Technology: neural networks trained per camera system for capture-time-ai image quality vs post-processing
- Follows $6.5B io acquisition with Jony Ive — signals consumer hardware push