It has been said that Apple, which prefers to stay in the background in the artificial intelligence race, has been working on a major update for Siri for a while. The latest allegations showed that a large Siri team in the USA was closed.

Apple is shutting down its 121-person Siri team

Apple this week decided to shut down its Siri data operations team in San Diego. However, the company showed that it had bigger plans by combining the 121-person group with a different artificial intelligence team. This move came as a surprise to users who were waiting for an update to Siri.

According to internal documents, it was informed that the 121 employees in the Siri team will be merged with the existing artificial intelligence team. Employees must decide by the end of February whether they will move to a different office.

However, it was stated that most of the employees affected by the situation did not want to change cities and teams. Accordingly, it was reported that employees who refuse to change offices will face dismissal.

It is known that the Siri team has so far focused on improving Siri by adding annotations to voice queries in languages ​​such as English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and French. The plan to merge with a different team increases the possibility of layoffs, and this will be a difficult move for Apple, which wants to make big steps in artificial intelligence.

The technology giant will also offer some opportunities to employees within the scope of changing cities. Accordingly, it was stated that there could be an increase in health insurance and road assistance of up to 7 thousand dollars. However, there will be different teams for those who do not want to change teams. Still, finding new positions at Apple can be difficult for non-engineers.