Apple Newsroom:

Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his position and will serve as an advisor to the company before retiring in the spring of 2026. Apple also announced that renowned AI researcher Amar Subramanya has joined Apple as vice president of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Subramanya will be leading critical areas, including Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. The balance of Giannandrea’s organization will shift to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue to align closer with similar organizations.

The company can refer to it as retirement if they want, but we all know damn well the writing was on the wall after Apple promised Apple Intelligence app intents support for Siri at WWDC 2024 and Giannandrea failed to deliver in spectacular fashion. It is slated for release in Spring of 2026, but until then it remains vaporware. I find the shift to Eddy Cue partially overseeing future development to be the most fascinating aspect of this announcement.