Alan Dye, the design executive who led Apple’s user interface team for the past decade, is leaving the company to join Meta, according to a report. report From Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
This is an important appointment for Meta, as the company continues to push toward consumer devices. smart glasses and virtual reality headsets. Dye will focus on improving the AI features in these devices and will report directly to Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth.
At Apple, Dye will be replaced by Steve LeMay, who has had a key role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999, according to a statement provided to Bloomberg by Apple CEO Tim Cook.
It seems that Meta is recruiting its competitors to help the company compete in the AI race, as Meta also attracted researchers from OpenAI this summer. (Reportedly, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand-delivered homemade stock For an OpenAI employee in the recruitment process; Mark Chen, chief research officer at OpenAI, said he has since distributed his own soup to promising meta recruits.)
