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You have to wonder if Giannandrea is what's been holding Siri back all these years. What can you point to that he's significantly improved at Apple since coming from Google in 2018? And now he's luke-warm on LLMs? Seems like someone we should be seeing present Apple's AI strategy at this year's WWDC keynote, no?

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> You have to wonder if Giannandrea is what's been holding Siri back all these years.

I think it's more that Siri wasn't central to Apple (though consider homepod and watch, both of which pretty much need to be talked to).

But he's the reason Google had a corporate push on AI at all; he bought Deep Mind etc. I really don't think he's been sitting on his hands.

True. Seems like now would be his moment to take center stage (literally at WWDC in about a week). His title is "Senior Vice President Machine Learning and AI Strategy". We've seen Ternus present. Srouji too. Sure would instill some confidence to hear directly from the AI Strategy SVP on what they've been working on and what they have planned. Turning Siri over to OpenAI sounds like a defeat for him.

He’s lukewarm on chatbots, not necessarily on LLMs.

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