{"id":125043,"date":"2025-10-16T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:07:08","slug":"apples-newly-tapped-head-of-chatgpt-like-ai-search-effort-to-leave-for-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125043\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s newly tapped head of ChatGPT-like AI search effort to leave for Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Apple executive leading an effort to develop AI-driven web search is stepping down, marking the latest in a string of high-profile exits from the company\u2019s artificial intelligence division.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The executive, Ke Yang, is leaving for Meta Platforms, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Just weeks ago, he was appointed head of a team called Answers, Knowledge and Information, or AKI. The group is developing features to make the Siri voice assistant more ChatGPT-like by adding the ability to pull information from the web.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That team is central to a major Siri revamp planned for March, part of Apple\u2019s broader effort to revive its struggling AI operations. The new version of Siri will also include features delayed from earlier this year, such as the ability to tap into personal data to handle more complex requests.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Answers feature, in particular, was designed to help Apple better compete with OpenAI, Perplexity and Alphabet\u2019s Google Gemini in the AI-powered search market \u2013 a space rapidly gaining traction among both smartphone and computer users.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Customers queue up in front of an Apple retail outlet Berlin, Germany, on September 19, 2025. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e12b5927-ddd8-4b16-85a8-cc75b708d0c0_bc94191d.jpg\" title=\"Customers queue up in front of an Apple retail outlet Berlin, Germany, on September 19, 2025. Photo: AFP\"\/>Customers queue up in front of an Apple retail outlet Berlin, Germany, on September 19, 2025. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yang recently became a direct report to John Giannandrea, Apple\u2019s senior vice-president of AI and machine learning. He had led the search-focused elements of the AKI group before taking over the entire division \u2013 a move that followed the departure of its previous head, Robby Walker.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Representatives for Apple and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Apple executive leading an effort to develop AI-driven web search is stepping down, marking the latest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[75807,75810,4186,311,75799,75809,297,75800,75804,18,75806,823,19,17,75808,75803,1722,307,7623,69734,75805,75801,75802,15165,18281,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-125043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-aiml","9":"tag-aki","10":"tag-alphabet","11":"tag-apple","12":"tag-apple-foundation-models","13":"tag-benoit-dupin","14":"tag-chatgpt","15":"tag-chong-wang","16":"tag-craig-federighi","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-frank-chu","19":"tag-google","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-john-giannandrea","23":"tag-ke-yang","24":"tag-meta","25":"tag-openai","26":"tag-perplexity","27":"tag-reflection-ai","28":"tag-robby-walker","29":"tag-ruoming-pang","30":"tag-sam-wiseman","31":"tag-siri","32":"tag-superintelligence-labs","33":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}