Apple announced earlierPersonnel changeApple has confirmed that John Giannandrea, senior vice president in charge of machine learning and AI strategy, will step down next spring. This means that the AI general, who previously served as the AI technology director at Google and joined Apple in 2018, reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook, will soon be ending his seven-year career at Apple.
At the same time, Apple also announced the recruitment of Amar Subramanya, who previously worked at Microsoft and Google, as Vice President of AI. He will report to Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, and will lead the development of key technologies such as basic models and AI security.
The John Giannandrea era is over: Siri's delayed progress is the fuse?
John Giannandrea, 60, has an illustrious career in AI, but Apple's AI development under his leadership is considered by both inside and outside the company to be "at least two years behind industry competitors." Not only has Apple Intelligence been delayed, but the release of the new Siri has also been repeatedly postponed, with Apple even admitting that development is not progressing as expected.
According to Bloomberg NewsRefers toTim Cook has already praised John Giannandrea's ability to lead the AI team.Loss of confidenceTherefore, before John Giannandrea officially steps down next spring, in addition to transitioning to an advisory role, the AI team previously led by him will also be split up, reporting to software head Craig Federighi, COO Sabih Khan, and services head Eddy Cue respectively, signifying Apple's plan to more deeply integrate AI into its various product lines.
Amar Subramanya was poached from Microsoft to quell the crisis and lead the basic model.
Amar Subramanya, who has taken over the development of Apple's AI technology, previously worked at Google for 16 years, where he led the Gemini assistant service engineering team. He had just moved to Microsoft in July of this year as the vice president of AI business. He has now been poached by Apple to take over the development of AI technology.
Amar Subramanya will focus on AI model development, machine learning research, and AI security, which are precisely the core technologies that Apple urgently needs to catch up with.
The robotics team was demoralized, and the technical lead jumped ship to Tesla.
In addition to personnel changes at the top AI level, Apple's grassroots R&D teams are also facing a talent loss crisis, especially in the field of robotics.
Yilun Chen, Apple's robotics research scientist and technology lead, said earlier in hisLinkedIn pageHe announced his departure and confirmed that he will be joining Tesla, specifically the Optimus humanoid robot team.
This follows Apple's Chief AI Researcher for Robotics in early September this year.Jian ZhangFollowing the departure of one member to Meta, Apple's AI team is once again experiencing talent loss. Coupled with the departure of several members from the model team currently responsible for the underlying technology of Apple Intelligence, this indicates that Apple is facing a serious internal talent drain crisis after setbacks in its self-developed AI system.
