John Giannandrea’s time at Apple is formally coming to an finish this week. Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after 8 years at Google to move the corporate’s device studying and AI technique.
In December of ultimate yr, then again, Apple introduced that Giannandrea was once stepping down from his place and would function an guide to the corporate earlier than absolutely departing in spring of 2026.
In the most recent version of his Energy On publication, Mark Gurman reviews that Giannandrea’s time as an guide to Apple wraps up this week. The timing correlates to Apple’s April 15 vesting date — which means Giannandrea remained on Apple’s payroll till now to let his subsequent spherical of inventory awards vest. That is one thing colloquially known as “resting and vesting” and within the trade.
Gurman reviews that Giannandrea’s plan post-Apple is to “sign up for some corporate forums and do advising paintings within the startup global.”
Apple has dramatically shaken up its AI groups and group within the fallout of the Apple Intelligence debut. Along the announcement of Giannandrea’s departure in December, Apple additionally introduced it had employed Amar Subramanya to function its VP of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Subramanya spent 16 years at Google and 5 months at Microsoft earlier than becoming a member of Apple.
Giannandrea had regulate of the Siri staff stripped in March 2025 after Tim Prepare dinner reportedly “misplaced self assurance” in his talent to “execute on product building.” Because it stands at the moment, Siri is led by way of Mike Rockwell within Apple, whilst Giannandrea’s different obligations were taken over by way of a mixture of Craig Federighi, Eddy Cue, and Sabih Khan.
Apple is about to announce primary new AI and Siri options as a part of iOS 27 at WWDC in simply two months. Those will mark the primary primary options since Federighi took fee and Apple signed its maintain Google to make use of Gemini fashions to energy new AI options.
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