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Google Hires Former Star Apple Engineer Chris Lattner For Its AI Team (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chris Lattner, a legend in the world of Apple software, has joined another rival of the iPhone maker: Alphabet's Google, where he will work on artificial intelligence. Lattner announced the news on Twitter on Monday, saying he will start next week. His arrival at Mountain View, California-based Google comes after a brief stint as head of the automated driving program at Tesla, which he left in June. Lattner made a name for himself during a decade-plus career at Apple, where he created the popular programming language Swift. Lattner said he is joining Google Brain, the search giant's research unit. There he will work on a different software language: TensorFlow, Google's system designed to simplify the programming steps for AI, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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Very funny. LLVM and Clang have revolutionized compiler technology. There are very few people in the computer science world with a resume as impressive as Chris Lattner. I'm not too surprised that he didn't thrive at Tesla. They are working too far up the stack. But Google develops low-level compute devices (Tensor processor), programming languages and frameworks, and he'll be a great fit to figure out how to make it all go fast.