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Apple AI Chief Retiring

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"Apple's longtime AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring, with former Microsoft and Google AI leader Amar Subramanya stepping in to take over. MacRumors notes the retirement comes after the company's repeated delays in delivering its revamped Siri and internal turmoil that led to an AI team exodus. From the report:Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with former Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya set to take over as vice president of AI. Subramanya will report to Apple engineering chief Craig Federighi, and will lead Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. Subramanya was previously corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft, and before that, he spent 16 years at Google. He was head of engineering for Google's Gemini Assistant, and Apple says that he has "deep expertise" in both AI and ML research that will be important to "Apple's ongoing innovation and future Apple Intelligence features."

Some of the teams that Giannandrea oversaw will move to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue, such as AI Infrastructure and Search and Knowledge. Khan is Apple's new Chief Operating Officer who took over for Jeff Williams earlier this year. Cue has long overseen Apple services. [...] Apple said that it is "poised to accelerate its work in delivering intelligent, trusted, and profoundly personal experiences" with the new AI team."We are thankful for the role John played in building and advancing our AI work, helping Apple continue to innovate and enrich the lives of our users," said Apple CEO Tim Cook in a statement. "AI has long been central to Apple's strategy, and we are pleased to welcome Amar to Craig's leadership team and to bring his extraordinary AI expertise to Apple. In addition to growing his leadership team and AI responsibilities with Amar's joining, Craig has been instrumental in driving our AI efforts, including overseeing our work to bring a more personalized Siri to users next year.""

Source: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/12/02/0021253/apple-ai-chief-retiring-after-siri-failure
 
Apple Intelligence must really be that bad.
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KazeoHin said:
Isn't Apple the only one to deliver an AI tool that isn't completely useless?

Mostly because they didn't deliver one.
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All that fancy llm stuff is manure.

Rightly or wrongly, apple has a reputation for a certain level of quality which to me looks like it is incompatible with the error rate inherent to the tech.
 
emphy said:
All that fancy llm stuff is manure.

Rightly or wrongly, apple has a reputation for a certain level of quality which to me looks like it is incompatible with the error rate inherent to the tech.
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I suspect Apple made the right call in leaning on a custom version of Gemini for next year's Siri upgrade. Gemini 3 appears to be a large step forward, and combine that with future upgrades plus Apple's privacy focus and it might well be reliable.
 
DukenukemX said:
Another way to look at it is their incompetence in AI means nobody has to worry about MacOS with AI features.
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Yep, seems to me like they did their best to shoot themselves in the foot like the rest of the industry and the gun jammed. Not trying to shoot yourself in the foot would have been even better, Tim, but as an Apple user, I’ll take the win.
 
westrock2000 said:
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement, "AI has long been central to Apple's strategy”

This is the first time I am hearing of this strategy…..
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Yeah for the longest time I could swear he was all "We aren't about buzzwords, we don't do AI, we use Machine Learning..."
 
Seems like Apple is shaking up their AI team – Giannandrea out and Subramanya in, plus leaning on Gemini for Siri. Funny how “retiring” means being pushed aside when the strategy shifts. Wonder if this housecleaning will bring better AI features or just more buzzwords.
 
might be time to sell my Apple stock before Jony Ive releases his iPhone killer in a few years
 
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