Apple poaching AI experts from Sundar Pichai’s Google for ‘secret’ Zurich lab: Report

Apple’s AI team operates out of California and Seattle. The company has also opened new offices in Zurich, Switzerland.

Published on: May 1, 2024, 11:00:27 IST

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Apple has hired several AI experts from Google to create a “secretive European laboratory” in Zurich, Financial Times reported. The team will build AI models and products, the report claimed after analysing a few LinkedIn profiles that revealed that Apple poached 36 specialists from Google since 2018. At the time Apple recruited Google’s John Giannandrea to be its top AI executive.

The Apple logo is illuminated at a store in the city center in Munich, Germany. (AP)

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