Apple was faced with a mass outcome of specialists from her AI team.
According to The Information, the cause was internal disagreements and the company’s refusal from an open approach to the development of neural networks.
At the beginning of 2025, the Apple team, which was engaged in the creation of generative models, proposed to lay out part of the developments in open access. This would allow you to attract independent researchers and show the technological progress of the company.
However, the head of the software unit Craig Federigi rejected the idea, referring to the fears that the audience would learn about the weaknesses of Apple Models, especially in the mobile version.
According to sources, dissatisfaction with the course on “AI in the device – launching neural networks directly on the iPhone for the sake of increasing the privacy of users is growing inside the corporation.
Engineers believe that this seriously limits the performance of their systems and prevents competing with Google and Openai solutions.
This became especially bright after the information about Apple’s negotiations with Openai, Anthropic and Google regarding the use of their models in the updated Siri appeared.
The remaining employees are promised to increase salaries in order to reduce the risk of new dismissals.
