Apple has announced the retirement and replacement of the guy who once handled Siri
In a press release today, Apple announced the retirement of John Giannandrea, a former luminary who served as President of APPE OPHRICE WEASPE OF AI, Susite, and established a reputation as ERA ENDIPHING AI.
The release also says that Amar Subramanya was recently brought in as Apple’s Vice President of APE for AI, apparently coming from a role as Vice President of the AI organization at AI at AI at AI at AI at AI at AI at Microsoft. Apple says he “will be integral to Apple’s continued innovation and future Apple Intelligence features.”
In other words, the focus of the release is not just siri – a product released about eight years before Giannandrea joined Apple. But even after apple took the aule intelligence revolution this year, you’d be forgiven if the only thing you associate with apple and ai at the time of gianandrea and company is Siri.
Siri in the Giannandrea Era has its defenders. A few days ago, the YouTube Tech Megainfluencer brownlee uploaded a video with the title “‘Siri is not well presented with an idea that notes that Siri is capable, but only when users encounter it.
And in Siri’s defense, it has a solution for types of general purpose LLM Some people have started to use AI in their daily lives, but it only emphasizes that the competition is the only one. Starting from iOS 18.2 almost exactly a year ago, certain Siri prompts started to be transmitted only in ChatGt. So now if you ask Siri to tell your five-year-old a story about sleeping with a duck, Siri will simply tag you in Chatgpt. That should be a little dirty for giannandrea.
After all, as Tommodo Tom Mccay wrote back in 2018, Giannandrea was the head of the GOIGE search until Apple included him in 2018 in an effort to find digital assistants “with Alexa. Seven years later, instead of throwing the competition, Siri just pulls the ripcord and uses chatgpt as a parachute.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Giannandrea was no longer in charge of Siri. Then last month a mature story appeared that the next siri would not share the apple apple at all, and that the apple will pay google a new model of important AI to serve as the main ingredient of neo-siri.
Subramanya seems to be replacing Giannandrea although his title is slightly different. He worked on Google Gemini during his 16 years at Google, which makes it sound like the new Siri, when it’s released, will have the fingerprints of APPE’s current AI head on its code somewhere.
But again, it feels like Apple is playing catch-up — rather than leading in this particular direction. Suri was made at a time when decisive responses to small voice commands were impressive. It has released other jobs, but with Giannandrea during the hard work it is just revealed by assistants working in haste. It looks like soon, Siri will finally be able to do these open LLM tasks that have ended so much that Apple has not faced at all during the reign of Giannandrea, and Subramanya will be able to take the credit. But with Siri thought to be catching up to 2026 standards for voice assistants, how long will that feel good enough last?
Giannandrea’s retirement will take effect in the spring of next year, an Apple release said.
