Apple Hired Dozens of Google’s Artificial Intelligence Experts

The race for personnel, which technology giants have long avoided, may begin with the demand for artificial intelligence experts. Apple recruited dozens of Google’s artificial intelligence experts for its mysterious laboratory in Zurich, where it hid its work from everyone. The task of the team is new artificial intelligence models and improving products.

Financial Times on LinkedIn employee profiles In his review, he revealed that at least 36 Google experts transferred to Apple. The beginning of these transitions dates back to 2018. Although Apple’s main artificial intelligence teams are in California and Seattle, the company has also established a private laboratory in Zurich, and names from Google are also assigned there.

The virtual reality laboratory remains a mystery.

Name of the laboratory in Zurich vision lab It is stated as and it is thought that the virtual reality startup FaceShift, which Apple acquired, and the visual recognition startup Fashwell had an influence on the establishment of this unit. The researchers working here say that Apple ChatGPT It is stated that they examine the large language models they are working on to better understand. Thus, Apple will be able to use its own more advanced language model.

The names that Apple has added to its roster are not names that should be ignored. Names such as Giannandrea, former director of Google Brain, Samy Bengio, one of Google’s chief artificial intelligence researchers, and Ruoming Pang, head of artificial intelligence speech recognition studies at Google. Names transferred to Apple It is among.