Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Retiring After Siri Delays

Apple AI main John Giannandrea is stepping down from his presumption and retiring successful outpouring 2026, Apple announced today.


Giannandrea volition service arsenic an advisor betwixt present and 2026, with erstwhile Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya acceptable to instrumentality implicit arsenic vice president of AI. Subramanya volition study to Apple engineering main Craig Federighi, and volition pb Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation.

Subramanya was antecedently firm vice president of AI astatine Microsoft, and earlier that, helium spent 16 years astatine Google. He was caput of engineering for Google's Gemini Assistant, and Apple says that helium has "deep expertise" successful some AI and ML probe that volition beryllium important to "Apple's ongoing innovation and aboriginal Apple Intelligence features."

Some of the teams that Giannandrea oversaw volition determination to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue, specified arsenic AI Infrastructure and Search and Knowledge. Khan is Apple's new Chief Operating Officer who took implicit for Jeff Williams earlier this year. Cue has agelong overseen Apple services.

Apple CEO Tim Cook thanked Giannandrea for his relation advancing Apple's AI work, and helium said that helium looks guardant to moving with Subramanya. He besides said that Federighi has played an important relation successful Apple's AI efforts.
"We are thankful for the relation John played successful gathering and advancing our AI work, helping Apple proceed to innovate and enrich the lives of our users," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "AI has agelong been cardinal to Apple's strategy, and we are pleased to invited Amar to Craig's enactment squad and to bring his bonzer AI expertise to Apple. In summation to increasing his enactment squad and AI responsibilities with Amar's joining, Craig has been instrumental successful driving our AI efforts, including overseeing our enactment to bring a much personalized Siri to users adjacent year."
Apple said that it is "poised to accelerate its enactment successful delivering intelligent, trusted, and profoundly idiosyncratic experiences" with the caller AI team.

Giannandrea's departure comes aft Apple's large iOS 18 Siri failure. Apple introduced a smarter, "‌Apple Intelligence‌" mentation of ‌Siri‌ astatine WWDC 2024, and advertised the functionality erstwhile selling the iPhone 16. In aboriginal 2025, Apple announced that it would not beryllium capable to release the promised mentation of ‌Siri‌ arsenic planned, and updates were delayed until outpouring 2026.

An exodus of Apple's AI team followed arsenic Apple scrambled to amended ‌Siri‌ and present connected features similar idiosyncratic context, onscreen awareness, and improved app integration. Apple is present rumored to beryllium partnering with Google for a much precocious mentation of ‌Siri‌ and different ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features that are acceptable to travel retired adjacent year.
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