Amar Subramanya appointed in Apple
Apple News: Apple has appointed AI researcher Amar Subramanya as its new AI Vice President. Amar Subramanya, a longtime Google executive who was most recently corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft, has been appointed by Apple as its new AI vice president. The company has also announced that the current AI executive, John Giannandrea, will retire from the company next year i.e. in 2026.
Know who is Amar Subramanya
Amar Subramanya was recently working as Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft, strengthening the company’s AI strategy. His work here on integration working of Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Copernicus models has been notable. Apart from this, before this, Amar Subramanya worked extensively on creating and enhancing Search, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Multimodal AI at Google, which is today working as the backbone of Google Assistant.
Amar Subramanya, whom Apple calls a popular AI researcher, spent 16 years at Google, where he was the engineering lead for Gemini. He left Google and moved to Microsoft earlier this year. In a press release, Apple said Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi. Additionally, he will lead key areas including Apple’s Foundation Model, ML research, and AI safety and evolution. “In addition to expanding our leadership team and AI responsibilities with the addition of Amar Subramanya, Craig Federighi is also playing a key role in leading our AI efforts, including overseeing our work to bring an even more personal Siri to users next year,” Tim Cook said.
Apple is continuously making changes in its AI leadership
It is constantly being seen that Apple is making changes in its AI leadership. John Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after serving as VP of Search at Google. Although his appointment was seen as a major success for Apple at the time, the company has since faced some significant setbacks. Most notably, it failed to deliver on the more personal, AI-centric version of Siri shown last year. John Giannandrea, who has overseen Siri for many years, has taken much of the responsibility for the delay.
John Giannandrea will retire next year
Bloomberg reported earlier this year that Apple CEO Tim Cook had ,lost confidence in AI chief John Giannandrea’s ability to lead product development, and replaced him with other executives over Siri. In a statement, Cook said he was grateful for John Giannandrea’s contributions to the company and credited Federighi with leading the way on the redesigned Siri. ,
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