Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye

Alan Dye, the plan enforcement who led Apple’s idiosyncratic interface squad for the past decade, is leaving the institution to articulation Meta, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

This is simply a important prosecute for Meta, arsenic the institution makes a propulsion toward user devices similar smart glasses and virtual world headsets. Dye volition absorption connected improving AI features successful these devices and study straight to Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth.

At Apple, Dye volition beryllium replaced by Steve Lemay, who has had “a cardinal relation successful the plan of each large Apple interface since 1999,” according to a connection Apple CEO Tim Cook gave Bloomberg.

It seems that Meta is recruiting from its competitors to assistance the institution vie successful the AI race, arsenic Meta besides poached researchers from OpenAI this summer. (Allegedly, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand-delivered homemade soup to an OpenAI worker successful a recruitment push; OpenAI main probe serviceman Mark Chen said that helium has since delivered his ain crockery to promising Meta recruits.)