On January 31st, according to BloombergappleThere has recently been a re-emergence of AI's brain drain, with a number of core researchers and a senior manager in Siri running successively over the past few weeksquit a job♪ To include ♪ Meta and Google Deepmind and so on。
It was reported that the most recent departures included Yinfei Yang, Haoxuan You, Bailin Wang and Zirui Wang。
Among them, Yang founded a new company, You and Bailin Wang joined Meta and joined the company's Superintelligence Research and Recommended Systems team; Zirui Wang switched to Google DeepMind。
At the same time, Stuart Bowers, the senior director of Siri's key capacity-building, has also left the apple to join Google DeepMind。
ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, THESE DEPARTURES TOOK PLACE AFTER APPLE ' S MASSIVE RESTRUCTURING OF AI LAST YEAR。
At that time, CEO Tim Cook redeployed John Giannandrea, who had long been in charge of AI, from his core post, with Craig Federighi, Senior Vice-President of Software Engineering, taking over the overall AI strategy and introducing former Google and Microsoft executive Amar Subramanya to some of the organizations。
The report mentions that the Apple Foundation Models (AFM) team, which has lost more than a dozen researchers over the past six months, is responsible for supporting the bottom model of Apple Industries and is under internal pressure as a result of Siri ' s roll-over and functional resonance。
It is worth noting that Apple plans to launch two editions this year: one will use personal data to provide more context-specific answers; the other will be a more radical adaptation, using interactive methods like chat robots。
Both are based on the new architecture model developed with the assistance of the Google team. Cook responded at the press conference about the choice of Google, saying that it would provide “the strongest foundation” for apples and stressed that cooperation between the two sides would help unlock more experiences。
Although apples published more than $85 billion of iPhone sales in their latest financial statements, the lack of visible AI progress and the continuing brain drain are still seen as important factors influencing their stock price performance this year。