Panasonic interview at Lesnumeriques: The L-mount alliance was formed in early 2018 and Olympus had not the same vision

The french blog Lesnumeriques interviewed Panasonic manager Yosuke Yamane:

Eight years ago Panasonic had the idea to go Full Frame but at the time there were technical and commercial challenges
Two years ago they started to look for an alliance around a Full Frame platform. At the beginning of 2018 they approached Leica and Sigma.
Why is Olympus not on board with this? Yosuke said “we do not really have the same vision. Our directions are different now, on this format“
The new AI autofocus system works on the question of “where to focus”. For example we use deep learning to track flying birds or human eyes
Panasonic has abandoned the smart phone project and there will be no follow-up of the CM1 (here on Amazon).
Panasonic does not think the smart phone market is a threat for MFT

I believe Olympus should have been on board with this!

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