Robby Walker, one of the highest artificial intelligence executives in Apple, will leave the company, said Bloomberg News citing people with knowledge of the matter.
Walker’s departure occurs at a time when Apple’s cautious approach to AI has fed the fears that it is leaving aside what could be the largest growth wave of the industry in decades.
The company took to launch its Apple Intelligence suite, including the integration of Chatgpt, while an expected artificial intelligence update for Siri was delayed until next year.
Walker has been a senior director of the response team, information and knowledge of the iPhone manufacturer since April of this year. He has been working at Apple since 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile.
According to the report, he plans to leave Apple next month. Walker was in charge of Siri until the beginning of this year, before the management of the voice assistant passed to the software director, Craig Federight.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for Reuters comments.
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Recently, Apple has seen a lot of its executives to leave to join the goal Platforms. The list includes Ruoming Pang, Apple’s main executive in charge of AI models, according to a Julio Bloomberg report.
Meta has also hired two other artificial intelligence researchers from Apple, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, who worked closely with Pang, for their Superintentintelligence Labs team.
Mike Rockwell, vice president in charge of the Vision Products Group, would be in charge of the Siri virtual assistant since the CEO Tim Cook has lost the confidence in the capacity of the Chief of Artificial Intelligence, John Giannandrea, to execute the development of products, Bloomberg reported in March.
In its annual product launch event last week, Apple presented a
Improved iPhones line, along with a thinner iPhone Air, and kept stable prices in the midst of the tariffs of US President Donald Trump who have damaged the company’s profits.
However, the event did not show many evidence of how Apple, a lag in the AI race, aims to close the gap with companies such as Google, which showed the capabilities of its Gemini AI model in its last flagship phones.
With Reuters information.
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