Bloomberg: Apple’s Machine Learning CEO Will Join Google

Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s chief executive for machine learning, will work for part of Google’s AI department. Bloomberg writes that on the basis of sources that would be involved in the recruitment.

Goodfellow would start working at DeepMind, a British software company that was acquired by Google in 2014, anonymous sources tell Bloomberg. DeepMind specializes in developing neural networks. Goodfellow has worked at Google as a researcher in the past. There he worked, among other things, on the processing of photos in Google Street View.

The CEO works at Apple in the Special Projects group and is said to have announced his departure earlier this month in an internal email. Goodfellow allegedly resigned due to Apple’s policy that employees must return to the office three days a week. “I strongly believe that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team,” he said in an internal email announcing his resignation.

Goodfellow and Apple have not confirmed the departure. DeepMind declined to respond to Bloomberg’s questions about the recruiting. Apple has now withdrawn from its new policy, due to increasing corona infections, wrote Reuters on Tuesday.