Thursday, July 19, 2018

Siri’s last co-founder has left Apple

Is Apple shaking up its Siri team? It certainly seems that way. According to a report from The Information, the last remaining cofounder of the digital assistant, Tom Gruber, has left the company. This follows from the announcement 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” — overseeing Siri and other AI efforts.

Gruber, along with Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, cofounded Siri Inc, the company which created the original Siri app and 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 wowing critics....

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