Alan Dye, the Design Executive who led Apple’s user interface team for the last decade, is to leave the company to join the meta, according to a Report From Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
This is a significant lease for the meta, as the company makes a push into consumer devices Smart glasses And virtual reality headsets. Dye will focus on improving AI features on the device and report directly to Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth.
At Apple, Color will be replaced by Steve Lemay, who has had “a leading role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999,” according to a statement Apple CEO Tim Cook gave to Bloomberg.
It seems that Meta is recruiting from its competitors to help companies that compete in the AI race, because Meta also swiped researchers from Openai this summer. (Allegedly, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand delivered Sup to Openai employees in the recruitment push; Openai research officer Mark Chen said that he once sent his own soup to promise Meta.)