Were you hoping to get your hands on an Apple electric car in the next few years? Would you settle for a smarter Siri?
Apple is canceling one of its open secret projects — building an autonomous electric car, and shifting most of the 2,000 employees working on it to focus on generative AI efforts instead.
The internal announcement was made by Apple COO Jeff Williams and an Apple vice president leading the electric car project, Kevin Lynch, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apple’s AI team is led by John Giannandrea, an Apple executive who’s been reportedly focused on generative AI endeavors for the past couple of years, including the development of large language model applications (LLMs) like AI chatbots (think, ChatGPT).
Not all employees will be so lucky, as Bloomberg says there will be layoffs.
