{"id":217163,"date":"2025-10-11T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217163\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:58:18","slug":"report-apple-is-searching-for-a-replacement-for-ai-chief-john-giannandrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217163\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Apple is \u2018searching for a replacement\u2019 for AI chief John Giannandrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/apple-intelligence-search.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s AI chief, John Giannandrea, hasn\u2019t had the best year. Beyond being the face of Apple\u2019s AI struggles, the leader has also had several key responsibilities <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/03\/20\/apple-puts-vision-pro-creator-in-charge-of-siri-as-apple-intelligence-rollout-falters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stripped away<\/a> recently. And now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-10\/apple-to-move-health-fitness-divisions-to-services-in-reorganization\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg reports<\/a> that Apple \u201cis searching for a replacement\u201d for Giannandrea.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s search for new AI head follows Siri delays, staff departures<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/10\/09\/apple-folds-health-and-fitness-into-services-splits-apple-watch-oversight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg reported<\/a> on a big restructuring happening at Apple in preparation for Jeff Williams\u2019 forthcoming retirement. Health and fitness divisions have reportedly moved under Eddy Cue\u2019s Services team, and Apple Watch responsibilities have shifted too.<\/p>\n<p>Within that article, there\u2019s also mention of more potential executive changes on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-10\/apple-to-move-health-fitness-divisions-to-services-in-reorganization\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Gurman writes at Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The company is searching for a replacement for\u00a0John Giannandrea, its artificial intelligence chief.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a total surprise, for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, the ongoing fallout from Apple\u2019s AI and Siri struggles have made Giannandrea\u2019s departure seem likely for a while now\u2014especially with his team <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/02\/apples-ai-exodus-continues-with-four-new-deflections-to-meta-openai-and-anthropic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bleeding employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/iphone-16-apple-intelligence-store.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-998553\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, Gurman has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-10-05\/who-will-be-apple-s-next-ceo-after-tim-cook-apple-shelves-vision-air-m5-ipad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> that Giannandrea\u2018s status is \u201cuncertain\u201d at Apple. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote as recently as last weekend that top leaders at Apple have been looking at outside prospects \u201cto eventually replace Giannandrea,\u201d including one senior AI exec at Meta.<\/p>\n<p>But this latest Gurman report offers the strongest statement yet of Apple\u2019s intent to replace its current AI chief.<\/p>\n<p>John Giannandrea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/03\/apple-hires-google-ai-chief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiring in 2018<\/a> was seen as a big win for Apple at the time. Until then he had been at Google, leading the push \u201cto integrate A.I. throughout Google\u2019s products, including internet search, Gmail and its own digital assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Giannandrea is indeed replaced, it will be interesting to see if the move brings any other restructuring to the AI organization within Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Do you expect Apple to replace John Giannandrea soon? Why or why not? 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Beyond being the face of Apple\u2019s AI struggles,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-217163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}