Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their Boss

Posted by mfiguiere on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:51PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-17/meta-hires-two-key-apple-ai-experts-after-poaching-their-boss

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Re:Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their ... by randycupertino on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:00PM (#44600777)

It seems like Meta realized their big Metaverse VR bet is a flop so they are desperately grasping at AI straws now.

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Re:Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their ... by Razele on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:10PM (#44600834)

Apple’s AI is no good though. Siri’s notoriously a piece of shit…

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Re:Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their ... by fakedang on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:36PM (#44600952)

Perhaps this is more a move about hiring disillusioned talent who want to work on AI at Apple, but are never given the opportunity because liquid glass and Craig Federighi.

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Re:Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their ... by derwiki on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:14AM (#44601428)

Siri has access to sooo much on my phone though. It’s going to be way easier to improve Siri than to create an iPhone replacement.

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