Apple vs Meta AI Race: AI lagging behind in the field of Apple Has suffered another big blow. Ke Yang, the company’s AI search project head, has resigned and is now going to join Meta. This move comes at a time when Apple was preparing to completely redesign its voice assistant Siri. According to reports, Yang’s departure is going to have a big impact on the company’s Siri upgrade project.
Apple had recently created a new AI group named Answer, Knowledge and Information (AKI), whose command was handed over to Ke Yang. Before his promotion, he was heading the search section of AKI. In the company he had to report to the Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and AI Strategy.
Yang’s team’s main goal was to equip Siri with ChatGPT-like capabilities, so that it could answer users’ questions in a smarter and more natural way. It is being told that Apple is planning to launch an upgraded version of Siri by March next year, but after Yang leaves the company, this project may slow down again.
While Apple is proving unsuccessful in stopping its senior executives, Meta is rapidly spreading its foot in the AI industry. The company’s Superintelligence Labs division is continuously expanding, and in this regard, Meta has hired top talents from giants like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Apple.
Mark Zuckerberg himself is keeping an eye on this hiring process. In the last few months, Meta has added around 50 AI experts to its team. Recently, the company has also hired Thinking Machine Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch, who was previously associated with Mira Murati’s startup.
In the last one year, many senior Apple AI engineers and project heads have left the company. Now Ke Yang’s departure is being considered a big blow to the company’s AI division. While companies like Meta, Google and OpenAI are rapidly working on super AI systems, Apple is still trying to stabilize its basic AI projects.
