Apple loses another AI exec to Meta 

Kay Yang, the Apple executive who is leading the iPhone maker’s efforts to create AI-powered web search, is going to meet, according to A Bloomberg report.

Marked Yang’s departure the latest In a string of departures from Apple’s AI unit, a much-anticipated Siri overhaul scheduled for March has put the company in jeopardy. Ruming Pang, Apple’s former head of AI models, has left to meet Earlier this year. About a dozen team members from Apple’s AIML (AI and Machine Learning) team have also left the company. Several members joined Mater’s new superintelligence lab.

A few weeks ago, Yang began overseeing the Answers, Knowledge and Information (AKI) team, which is tasked with improving Siri’s functionality by allowing it to gather data from the web so that Apple can better compete in the AI ​​search market with rivals like OpenAI, Perplexity and Google. The new Siri promises to be able to tap into personal data for more complex tasks.

Bloomberg reports that Apple’s remaining team members expect more AI team members to jump ship in the coming months.

TechCrunch has reached out to Apple and Meta for comment.