00:00Apple shakes up AI team as Siri's comeback stalls.
00:04Apple's AI chief, John Gianandrea, is stepping down just as the company tries to drag Siri out of her long, awkward phase and into something resembling 2025.
00:13The announcement dropped Monday, marking the latest chapter in Apple's increasingly turbulent quest to make its voice assistant smarter than, well, a talking box from 2011.
00:24Taking the reins is Amar Subramanya, Apple's newly crowned vice president of AI.
00:30If his name sounds familiar, that's because he spent nearly two decades shaping AI at Google, then hopped to Microsoft's AI division this summer before being scooped up by Apple.
00:40Now, he's tasked with overseeing everything from machine learning research to AI safety, and no pressure, fixing Siri.
00:48Gianandrea, who was once Google's AI and search SAR, arrived at Apple back in 2018 with the promise of giving Siri a brain upgrade.
00:57But progress has been leisurely.
00:58In March, Apple quietly hit the snooze button on a more personalized Siri, insisting the project was taking longer than we thought.
01:06It wasn't going well.
01:08Bloomberg later reported that Tim Cook had lost confidence in Gianandrea's leadership, prompting him to hand key responsibilities to Vision Pro lead Mike Rockwell.
01:18Gianandrea will stick around as an advisor before officially retiring in spring 2026.
01:23Apple, meanwhile, insists this isn't chaos.
01:27It's evolution.
01:27The company says Subramania's history of turning AI research into real products is exactly what its future Apple intelligence features need.
01:36He'll report directly to Craig Federighi, who has already been shepherding Apple's AI reboot and is now essentially the studio head for the Siri Redemption arc.
01:45And the next big episode?
01:47Apple expects to launch the long-delayed upgraded Siri next spring.
01:52Rumor has it some of Siri's new tricks may come courtesy of Google's Gemini model, customized for Apple's privacy-first approach.
01:59Coach Cook, ever the optimist, says he's thrilled to have Subramania joining the team.
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