Apple\u2019s top artificial intelligence executive is stepping down and will retire in 2026, the company announced Monday. <\/p>\n
John Giannandrea had been at Apple since 2018, where his official title was senior vice president for machine learning and AI strategy. <\/p>\n
He will be replaced by Amar Subramanya, who comes to Apple after a brief stint as corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft and more than a decade at Google. <\/p>\n
Subramanya will report to one of CEO Tim Cook\u2019s deputies, Craig Federighi, rather than to Cook directly, as Giannandrea had.<\/p>\n
\u2018AI has long been central to Apple\u2019s strategy, and we are pleased to welcome Amar to Craig\u2019s leadership team and to bring his extraordinary AI expertise to Apple,\u2019 Cook said Monday.<\/p>\n
The abrupt change at a company known for its careful succession planning highlights Apple\u2019s challenge as it tries to compete with top AI developers such as Google, ChatGPT owner OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft. <\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Apple delayed the release of an upgraded version of Siri with AI powered features. At the time, it said it was going to \u2018take us longer than we thought\u2019 to develop the new version. <\/p>\n
The company said it anticipated rolling out new features \u2018in the coming year,\u2019 but it has not offered any more specifics. <\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re making good progress on it, and, as we\u2019ve shared, we expect to release it next year,\u2019 Cook said on the company\u2019s quarterly earnings call in late October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Apple Intelligence, we\u2019ve introduced dozens of new features that are powerful, intuitive, private and deeply integrated into the things people do every day,\u201d Cook said on the Oct. 30 call<\/p>\n
The company is targeting the spring to release the upgraded Siri, Bloomberg News recently reported.<\/p>\n
When a user grants permission, Siri can tap into ChatGPT\u2019s broad world knowledge and present an answer directly.<\/span>Apple<\/span><\/p>\n While Apple\u2019s iOS and macOS are integrated with ChatGPT, those features are somewhat limited. <\/p>\n In recent weeks, Apple has reportedly neared deals to integrate with Google\u2019s Gemini, as well as AI models from Perplexity and Anthropic.<\/p>\n Apple introduced Apple Intelligence on June 10, 2024.<\/span>Apple<\/span><\/p>\n Apple\u2019s stock has also felt the effect of what some perceive to be its lagging AI services.<\/p>\n This year, Apple shares have returned 13%, which tops both Amazon and Microsoft. But shares of Oracle have popped 20%, Nvidia has surged 34%, and Google parent company Alphabet has soared 65%.<\/p>\n Still, Apple remains the world\u2019s second-largest publicly traded company, with a market value of $4.2 trillion, behind only Nvidia.<\/p>\n Overall, the S&P 500 has risen almost 16% this year.<\/p>\n\n Apple\u2019s top artificial intelligence executive is stepping down and will retire in 2026, the company announced Monday. John Giannandrea had been at Apple since 2018, where his official title was senior vice president for machine learning and AI strategy. He will be replaced by Amar Subramanya, who comes to Apple after a brief stint as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}