Apple to strip secret robotics unit from AI chief weeks after moving Siri
Apple Inc. will By removing the unit of secret robots from the leadership of the head of artificial intelligence, which is the latest process of disposing of the company’s conflicts.
Apple plans to transfer robots from AI in John Giannandrea to the devices section later this month, according to people who have knowledge of this step. This will put it during the reign of First Vice president John Turnos, who oversees the engineering of devices, that people who asked not to know this because change is not a year.
The second major project that will be removed from Giannandrea will celebrate last month: the company stripped the Siri Voice assistant from its competence in March. Changes are part of a wider effort to catch artificial intelligence, a field in which Apple has left their technological peers such as Google and Openai in Alphabet Inc.
Giannandrea, the former executive director of Google, who is the first vice president of the automatic learning and artificial intelligence strategy, continues to manage most AIF efforts from ABEL. People said the change will give its group more time to focus on the technology of the basic artificial intelligence.
A representative of Cupertino, in California, refused to comment.
The Siri Engineering unit was seized by MIKE ROCKWELL, which was previously running the development of devices and programs for Vision Pro headphones. As part of this administrative transformation, Rocwell maintains the supervision of the VisionOS operating system. Bloomberg News said this week, it replaces a lot of Siri’s administration with senior deputies of Vision Pro team.
In contrast, the robots team is more behind the scenes in Apple. It works on ways to use artificial intelligence technologies for power devices – which may lay the foundation for a new product category. The group is led by veteran executive director Kevin Lynch, who managed Apple Watch and the self -driving car initiative that has now ended.
As part of the Robotics project, Apple plans to version of a robot on the table uses an artificial end to navigate an iPad -like screen. For more than that in the future, the group discussed the construction of mobile machines, including a roaming robot similar to Amazon Astro. Products are designed to be remote presence devices, which means that they will allow video users with others.
Robots appear quickly as one of the most exciting fields in Silicon Valley, with Tesla Inc. And other Meta Platforms and Giants that invest billions of dollars in this category. After losing in the Toulbid AI, canceling its self -driving car plans and arriving late to the smart home market, Apple can miss another main category that AI moved.
Apple’s senior executives have a belief in Ternus’s ability to oversee the project. He is one of the first lieutenant for CEOs Tim Cook, and he is already responsible for devices engineering for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro and most other products. Many employees believe that Ternus can be the CEO of the upcoming Apple company – a future transformation that can happen at a time when robots become larger.
Ternus has already a specialty on the devices engineering team managed by executive managers Matt Costilo and Brian Lynch working on robots and smart home technologies. The latest stops also indicates that Apple intensifies work on effort and wants to align both groups in a closer way to one president.
Lynch unit is also noticeable because it gives Ternus control of the main AI operating system and algorithms, and groups that are usually not managed by the devices engineering department. Ternus briefly supervised the Vision Pro Program Unit – until RockWell moved with this team to the software engineering institution. Coincidentally, Siri’s administration turned last month.
For Giannandrea, the key will determine another reduction of some kind in the wake of the main delay of the main Siri features and the lukewarm response to the Apple Intelligence platform. He has now lost hundreds of engineers only this year – to Ternus, RockWell and Craig Federigi – after Cook lost confidence in his ability to implement the development of new products.
The Giannandrea Group Transitions are free to focus on developing basic models that will operate future Apple products – including Apple Intelligence and Siri.
The AI group and the automatic learning group, from which some “AI/MLOLS” employees mocking compensation for several months after multiple delays of the promising Siri features. People also complained about Apple about the legendary position of the slower engineering and the development of new initiatives. At a comprehensive meeting last month, the former Apple president of Siri described the Giannandrea-Robby Walker-“ugly” and “embarrassing” position.
Giannandrea has not given its team any indication that it is planning to leave soon, but the ongoing shift in responsibilities has sparked the possibility that the company will prepare for a world without the executive authority at the top of its efforts of artificial intelligence. The people said that after eight years of combining Apple AI teams in one group with Giannandrea, the disintegration of the AI and ML team seems more likely.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
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2025-04-24 21:22:00
