Mark Zuckerberg doesn't person to interest astir Sam Altman coming for his glasses.
"I find it very uncomfortable talking to group pinch a camera and a light," the OpenAI CEO told tech journalist Alex Heath during an question and reply for Heath's "Sources Podcast," which was published connected Tuesday.
Altman's feelings are becoming rather clear. When reporters asked him connected the sidelines of past year's Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference if the sunglasses he was sporting were smart glasses, he was speedy to group the grounds straight.
"Absolutely not," he said. "I don't for illustration smart glasses."
Meta, which has its ain competing frontier AI models, is 1 of the biggest players successful the smart glasses abstraction and partners pinch Ray-Ban to make the devices. EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Ban, said it sold much than 7 cardinal pairs of AI glasses past year.
Not everyone is enjoying looking through, aliases alternatively into, the glasses.
Meta has precocious mounted a PR blitz aft immoderate venues announced plans to prohibition patrons from wearing smart eyewear.
Instagram has besides pledged to ace down connected users who usage smart glasses to secretly movie harassing content, often successful the shape of prank aliases pick-up statement guidance videos. Business Insider newsman Katie Notopoulos has recovered the societal web still has activity to do successful this area.
The conception remains large business for Meta. While the tech elephantine doesn't study really overmuch it makes connected glasses alone, it has many times said successful net statements that higher AI-glasses income are offsetting slower income of its Quest headsets.
In July, Meta reported that Reality Labs, which includes its user hardware sales, generated $431 cardinal successful gross successful the 2nd 4th of 2026, up $61 cardinal year-over-year.
As for OpenAI, Heath tried to get Altman to spill a fewer much specifications astir the ChatGPT maker's highly anticipated AI-enabled devices that it is processing alongside famed iPhone designer Jony Ive.
"I deliberation there's thing that belongs connected a table," Altman said, "there's thing that belongs successful your pocket, and there's thing that belongs connected your body, and it'll return america immoderate clip to motorboat each of those things."
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Brent D. Griffiths
Brent Griffiths is simply a elder newsman astatine Business Insider who covers AI and tech.Previously, he worked astatine the Washington Post arsenic a interrogator connected Power Up and the Finance 202. He started his profession astatine Politico wherever he worked connected the web accumulation squad and covered breaking news. His passion for covering authorities has only grown since he trim his teeth covering the statesmanlike run arsenic a student journalist. He's besides contributed to the Almanac of American Politics.
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