John Giannandrea, the company’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is retiring this spring,
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says in his latest Power On newsletter that the long-time Apple exec’s plan post-Apple is to “join some company boards and do advising work in the startup world.”
For better or worse, Giannandrea has born the brunt of criticism for Apple’s languishing AI efforts. The tech giant has announced that AI researcher Amar Subramanya has joined Apple as vice president of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Subramanya will be leading critical areas, including Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. The balance of Giannandrea’s organization will shift to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue to align closer with similar organizations.
Since joining Apple in 2018, Giannandrea played a key role in the company’s AI and machine learning strategy. This team is currently responsible for Apple Foundation Models, Search and Knowledge, Machine Learning Research, and AI Infrastructure.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says Subramanya brings a wealth of experience to Apple, having most recently served as corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft, and previously spent 16 years at Google, where he was head of engineering for Google’s Gemini Assistant prior to his departure. His deep expertise in both AI and ML research and in integrating that research into products and features will be important to Apple’s ongoing innovation and future Apple Intelligence features, Cook adds.
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