AI image generator Midjourney hires former Apple Vision Pro engineer as Head of Hardware
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Midjourney Enlists Top Apple Vision Pro Engineer for AI Image Generator Hardware. Abbas’ hiring made in December last year signals that the firm is now expanding into the hardware segment
Popular AI text-to-image generator Midjourney has hired Ahmad Abbas, a former engineer who was a part of their Vision Pro team, as the Head of Hardware. Abbas’s hiring, made in December last year, signals that the firm is now expanding into the hardware segment.
Jim Fan, a senior AI research scientist at Nvidia, spoke about the move on microblogging platform ‘X’ with Nick St. Pierre, a creative director working in the AR/VR space, who revealed that the hardware team was currently focused on collecting datasets for 3D use cases.
Midjourney hasn’t confirmed the news yet.
A report by ‘The Decoder’ stated that during a Discord session in December, Midjourney CEO David Holz announced that the company was already working on releasing a text-to-video and a text-to-3D model.
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Interestingly, Holz himself had started in the hardware business after founding finger-tracking camera startup Leap Motion, where Abbas also worked as a hardware engineer before moving to Apple.
AR/VR hardware like the recent Apple Vision Pro headset have heated up the hi-tech hardware segment.
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