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OpenAI, Glass Imaging, and Useful AI2:15 – 15:06

Nino LeitnerHost

2:15

So, um, who is Glass Imaging and why does it matter? Well, the interesting thing here, this is not a confirmed, technically confirmed acquisition.

Nino LeitnerHost

2:26

However, the CEO and founder of the company re-shared a lot of things on LinkedIn [laughs] thanking his investors and so on, uh, for a Wall Street Journal report, which, um, reported about this acquisition.

Nino LeitnerHost

2:40

So I think we can take this as a confirmation, even though there was no official word from OpenAI.

Nino LeitnerHost

2:45

Why does it matter? So Glass Imaging is a company that was founded in 2019 from, by two ex-Apple engineers who were the team behind the portrait mode on the iPhone.

Johnnie BehiriHost

2:59

Oh.

Johnnie BehiriHost

2:59

[laughs]

Nino LeitnerHost

2:59

So the, you know, like, the fake depth of field look, um, and what also later came as cinematic mode on iPhone.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:07

Now, what's interesting, this company, Glass, uh, Imaging, has been working on something called, um, of course, Glass AI, I think.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:16

Um, and it's a technology that does not only, but also, uh, enhancement of images that are acquired by smartphone sensors.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:28

On their website, actually, you can try out, you can, you can click around, you can see images that were done with a normal, um, sensor of a camera, of a smartphone mostly, and also drones.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:39

And then you can kind of enable and disable their Glass AI, and then it looks better.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:45

I mean, it's a little bit like Topaz upscaling stuff-

Johnnie BehiriHost

3:47

Right

Nino LeitnerHost

3:47

... and so on.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:48

However, they are also working on a combination of hardware and software.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:54

So they even work on the hardware layer and, uh, sensors and stuff like that.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:59

So that's the interesting thing.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:01

And there is a product already that uses it, and it's the Honor 600 phone series-

Johnnie BehiriHost

4:08

Mm-hmm

Nino LeitnerHost

4:08

... that was released, I think, earlier this year.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:12

And I mean, what they do, they have, like, a 200 megapixel sensor for a fake zoom, basically.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:20

So you can zoom in into this enhanced image.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:25

Um, the interesting part here is simply that, I mean, those are people who have really pioneered a lot of things in smartphone imaging, and everybody has been speculating about what OpenAI is doing since they hired Jony Ive and when OpenAI published this strange photo-

Johnnie BehiriHost

4:45

Yeah

Nino LeitnerHost

4:45

... of Sa- Sam Altman and Jony Ive [laughs] when he joined the company.

OpenAI, Glass Imaging, and Useful AI2:15 – 15:06

Nino LeitnerHost

2:15

So, um, who is Glass Imaging and why does it matter? Well, the interesting thing here, this is not a confirmed, technically confirmed acquisition.

Nino LeitnerHost

2:26

However, the CEO and founder of the company re-shared a lot of things on LinkedIn [laughs] thanking his investors and so on, uh, for a Wall Street Journal report, which, um, reported about this acquisition.

Nino LeitnerHost

2:40

So I think we can take this as a confirmation, even though there was no official word from OpenAI.

Nino LeitnerHost

2:45

Why does it matter? So Glass Imaging is a company that was founded in 2019 from, by two ex-Apple engineers who were the team behind the portrait mode on the iPhone.

Johnnie BehiriHost

2:59

Oh.

Johnnie BehiriHost

2:59

[laughs]

Nino LeitnerHost

2:59

So the, you know, like, the fake depth of field look, um, and what also later came as cinematic mode on iPhone.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:07

Now, what's interesting, this company, Glass, uh, Imaging, has been working on something called, um, of course, Glass AI, I think.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:16

Um, and it's a technology that does not only, but also, uh, enhancement of images that are acquired by smartphone sensors.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:28

On their website, actually, you can try out, you can, you can click around, you can see images that were done with a normal, um, sensor of a camera, of a smartphone mostly, and also drones.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:39

And then you can kind of enable and disable their Glass AI, and then it looks better.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:45

I mean, it's a little bit like Topaz upscaling stuff-

Johnnie BehiriHost

3:47

Right

Nino LeitnerHost

3:47

... and so on.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:48

However, they are also working on a combination of hardware and software.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:54

So they even work on the hardware layer and, uh, sensors and stuff like that.

Nino LeitnerHost

3:59

So that's the interesting thing.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:01

And there is a product already that uses it, and it's the Honor 600 phone series-

Johnnie BehiriHost

4:08

Mm-hmm

Nino LeitnerHost

4:08

... that was released, I think, earlier this year.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:12

And I mean, what they do, they have, like, a 200 megapixel sensor for a fake zoom, basically.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:20

So you can zoom in into this enhanced image.

Nino LeitnerHost

4:25

Um, the interesting part here is simply that, I mean, those are people who have really pioneered a lot of things in smartphone imaging, and everybody has been speculating about what OpenAI is doing since they hired Jony Ive and when OpenAI published this strange photo-

Johnnie BehiriHost

4:45

Yeah

Nino LeitnerHost

4:45

... of Sa- Sam Altman and Jony Ive [laughs] when he joined the company.