Apple is losing many hardware engineers to OpenAI’s Jony Ive AI device efforts

Apple CEO Tim Cook
OpenAI is aggressively recruiting talent from Apple’s hardware engineering team. While Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom has long been staffed primarily by ex-Apple designers — effectively turning Apple’s once-legendary design group into a talent pipeline — the departures have now spread to hardware engineering.
The recent $6 billion acquisition by OpenAI of Jony Ive’s secretive AI device startup, io, has accelerated the exodus. Multiple engin