The creator of Apple "Swift" ceases Tesla's automatic driving development and enters Google's artificial intelligence development team

ByJon Russell

Apple's programming language "SwiftMr. Chris Rattner, who was the creator of January 2017, left Apple and worked on the development of automatic driving software at Tesla, but since August 2017 Google's Artificial Intelligence (AI ) It has become obvious that he moved to the development team.

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Mr. Lutner revealed to join Google Brain with his own Twitter account, "I'm very excited to be able to join Google Brain from next week.AI is still not popular, but anyone can use it I'm tweeting "to help you make it happen!

I'm super excited to join Google Brain next week: AI can not democratize itself (yet?) So I'll help make it more accessible to everyone!

- Chris Lattner (@ clattner_llvm)August 14, 2017

Mr. Lutner is a person known as the creator of "Swift" which is a programming language for developing applications for iOS, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and "Swift Playgrounds" which can learn coding using Swift on iPad. For reasons for transferring from Apple to Tesla, he explained "to pursue opportunities in other fields".

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According to information registered in LinkedIn, one of the world's largest business-specific SNSs, Mr. Lutner has worked as a compiler and IT architect at Apple since 2005, and since January 2017 Tesla's automatic He was appointed Vice President of Operation Software Division. After that, he left Tesla in just six months, and since August 2017 he assumed office as an engineer director of Google and seems to be involved in TensorFlow related development of machine learning framework.

Chris Lattner | LinkedIn


Google Brain, to which Mr. Lutner joined, is also the development department of TensorFlow to simplify the AI ​​programming procedure. TensorFlow is opened to the public in November 2015 and is released for free,WikipediaAccording to "It is used for the research and production of Google's service and it almost replaces the previously used closed source DistBelief 's role", which means that the important machine learning library supporting Google It has become one.