Overview

• Ke Yang, appointed only weeks ago to head Apple’s Answers, Knowledge and Information team, is reportedly departing to join Meta, according to Bloomberg.
• The AKI group has been developing ChatGPT-style web search that lets Siri pull information directly from the web for a planned overhaul targeted for March 2026, per reports.
• Following Yang’s exit, AKI is being moved under Benoit Dupin, a deputy who oversees machine-learning infrastructure inside Apple.
• Yang’s departure follows earlier exits including Ruoming Pang, Frank Chu, and Chong Wang, with roughly a dozen members of Apple’s foundation-models effort reported to have left this year, many to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs.
• The shake-up compounds leadership churn after prior AKI head Robby Walker left, raising questions about execution on Apple’s search and Siri roadmap.