Apple Hires Google Veteran As Its New Vice President Of Ai

Apple has tapped AI interrogator Amar Subramanya, a longtime Google exec who was astir precocious firm vice president of AI astatine Microsoft, arsenic its caller VP of AI. The institution also announced that existent AI exec, John Giannandrea, will discontinue successful 2026.

Subramanya, who Apple describes arsenic a "renowned AI researcher," spent 16 years astatine Google, wherever he was caput of engineering for Gemini. He near Google earlier this twelvemonth for Microsoft. In a property release, Apple said that Subramanya will study to Craig Federighi and will "be starring captious areas, including Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation."

It's not wholly astonishing that Apple is shaking up its AI leadership. Giannandrea joined Apple successful 2018 aft a stint astatine Google that included VP of search. While his hiring was seen arsenic a awesome coup for Apple astatine nan time, nan institution has faced immoderate important setbacks since. Most notably, its failure to present a much personalized, AI-centric type of Siri that it previewed past year. Giannandrea, who oversaw Siri for years, has shouldered overmuch of nan blasted for nan delays. Bloomberg reported earlier this twelvemonth that Apple CEO Tim Cook had "lost assurance successful nan expertise of AI caput John Giannandrea to execute connected merchandise development" and put different executives successful complaint of Siri instead.

In a statement, Cook said he was "thankful" for Giannandrea's contributions to nan institution and credited Federighi pinch pushing nan revamped Siri forward. "In summation to increasing his activity squad and AI responsibilities pinch Amar’s joining, Craig has been instrumental successful driving our AI efforts, including overseeing our activity to bring a much personalized Siri to users adjacent year.”