OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300m, WSJ reports
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Spending $300m+ on Glass Imaging’s AI camera stack shows how seriously foundation model players take control of sensor and data quality at the edge. If your product depends on visual input, assume the bar for on-device perception and pre-processing is about to rise sharply.
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