Author: James Vincent
Is Apple shaking up its Siri team? It certainly seems that way. According to a report from The Information, the last remaining co-founder of the digital assistant, Tom Gruber, has left the company. This follows the announcement from earlier this month that Google’s former AI chief, John Giannandrea, will be taking on a new role as Apple’s “chief of machine learning and AI strategy” and will oversee Siri and other AI efforts.
Gruber, along with Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, co-founded Siri Inc, the company that created the original Siri app, which Apple purchased in 2010 for $200 million. Siri was introduced in the iPhone 4S the following year, with its then-unique combination of speech recognition and “assistant” features that wowed...
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Is Apple shaking up its Siri team? It certainly seems that way. According to a report from The Information, the last remaining co-founder of the digital assistant, Tom Gruber, has left the company. This follows the announcement from earlier this month that Google’s former AI chief, John Giannandrea, will be taking on a new role as Apple’s “chief of machine learning and AI strategy” and will oversee Siri and other AI efforts.
Gruber, along with Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, co-founded Siri Inc, the company that created the original Siri app, which Apple purchased in 2010 for $200 million. Siri was introduced in the iPhone 4S the following year, with its then-unique combination of speech recognition and “assistant” features that wowed...
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