Amar Subramanya appointed as Vice President of AI at Apple

Key facts

• Amar Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering.
• He will lead critical areas, including Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation.
• John Giannandrea will retire as Apple's current AI chief in 2026.
• He most recently served as corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft.
• He spent 16 years at Google, where he rose to head of engineering for Gemini.