Head of Apple’s AI Search Project Leaves to Join Meta

Apple’s artificial intelligence division has lost another senior executive, with Ke Yang, who was recently appointed to lead the company’s AI-driven web search effort, departing for Meta, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman.

Yang had only recently taken over Apple’s newly created Answers, Knowledge, and Information group, known internally as “AKI.” The team is responsible for developing technology to make Siri more ChatGPT-like, including the ability to retrieve live information from the web. The AKI…