Apple’s current conflict with Apple Intelligence and Siri began in early 2023 when AI chief John Giannandrea sought approval from CEO Tim Cook to buy more AI chips for development, according to a new report the new York Times,
Cook initially approved the doubling of the team’s chip budget, but CFO Luka Chest allegedly reduced the amount by half, and instead encouraged the team to make the existing chips more efficient.
Adequate GPU lack of resources meant that Apple’s AI team had to interact with providers such as Google and Amazon for computing power.
At that time, Apple’s data centers had around 50,000 GPUs which were over five years old – much less than hundreds of thousands of chips being purchased by contestants such as Microsoft, Google and Meta.
Now The report proceeds to cover the leadership conflicts within the company, describing a power struggle between Robbie Walker, which oversees Siri, and a senior executive Sebastian Marino-Mace of the software team. Both of them allegedly batted, which would lead the new capabilities of Siri, both would eventually receive pieces of the project.
After internal tests, Apple Intelligence faced significant delays, which revealed that Siri was wrong on almost one -third requests. Apple later admitted that it would take longer than expected to roll the more individual siri experience, and these features would be “rolled out” in the coming year.
However, according to the report, Apple is still planning to release this decline experience. The functionality includes personal reference, onscreen awareness and better app integration. Some Apple officials are not allegedly concerned about the delay, and believe that the contestants have not completed AI, which gives Apple time to correct it.
After the delay, the software chief Craig Federighi reorganized the authorities, removed the responsibility for the new tail from Giandria and re -assigned Mike Rockwell, which leads the Vision Pro Division. Changes in the details of Apple’s Siri team and the delayed Siri Rivamps were previously reported Bloomberg And Information,
For more information on Apple’s internal issues, including political infections, budget deficiency and talent drain, see the new York Times, Full report,
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