Apple just swapped out its AI chief, John Giannandrea, for Amar Subramanya, who was doing AI research over at Microsoft. Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi as a VP and take over the company's entire AI operation. Tim Cook mentioned that Federighi has been pushing the AI stuff forward behind the scenes, like getting a revamped Siri ready for next year that will supposedly run on a massive custom Gemini model with over a trillion parameters instead of the tiny 1.5 billion-parameter thing they use right at this moment.
Apple is apparently bleeding people everywhere since OpenAI has poached around 40 engineers recently to work on some iPhone-killer device with Jony Ive's company. Some notable exits include Matt Theobald and Cyrus Daniel Irani, plus the guy who designed the iPhone Air just bailed for an AI startup. Meanwhile, Apple will drop around a billion bucks annually to license Google's AI tech, which is nothing compared to the $20 billion Google already pays Apple for default search placement in Safari.
Apple is apparently bleeding people everywhere since OpenAI has poached around 40 engineers recently to work on some iPhone-killer device with Jony Ive's company. Some notable exits include Matt Theobald and Cyrus Daniel Irani, plus the guy who designed the iPhone Air just bailed for an AI startup. Meanwhile, Apple will drop around a billion bucks annually to license Google's AI tech, which is nothing compared to the $20 billion Google already pays Apple for default search placement in Safari.
