Caitlin Kalinowski

Caitlin Kalinowski is a product-design and hardware engineering leader who formerly led robotics and consumer hardware at OpenAI. She previously led AR/VR hardware work at Meta/Oculus, including AR glasses and Oculus VR devices, and earlier worked as an Apple hardware engineer on Mac products.

The AI Hardware Boom Depends on Magnets, Memory, and Manufacturing Scale

Caitlin Kalinowski, the former Apple, Meta and OpenAI hardware leader, argues that AI’s next frontier is moving from digital work into the physical world. In Lenny Rachitsky’s interview, she says the coming hardware boom will depend less on flashy humanoid demos than on manufacturing discipline, supply chains, safety, actuators, memory, and the hard limits of building products that have to work in real environments.

Lenny's PodcastMay 17, 202626 min read