Google and Apple CEOs once fought to hire and retain THESE 2 IIT engineers

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook are extremely impressed by three extremely skilled engineers, two of whom are from the premier Indian IIT

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook are extremely impressed by three extremely skilled engineers, two of whom are from the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

Srinivasan Venkatachary, Steven Baker, and Anand Shukla, who were instrumental in modernizing Apple Inc’s search technology, reportedly joined Google last year to contribute to the development of large-language models- the underlying technology behind chatbots like Microsoft-funded ChatGPT.

The trio joined Google while Apple CEO Tim Cook “tried to persuade them to stay,” says the reports.

Shukla earned a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT-Kanpur in 2001 before pursuing a master’s degree from the University of Illinois. He and Venkatachary co-founded a company called Laserlike Inc, which was acquired by Apple, after working for 12 hours for the American multinational technology company.

Notably, Shukla joined Apple in 2018 and spent a little over four years there before returning to Google in November last year.

On the other hand, Venkatachary is a 1996 IIT-Madras alumnus, with a computer science degree. He further completed his master’s degree in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis. Alike Shukla, Venkatachary built his career at Google, for six years, followed by a four-year stint at Apple before returning to the tech giant last October as vice president of engineering.

Moreover, Steven Baker too left Apple and returned to Google along with Shukla and Venkatachary. Losing three talented engineers has highly affected Apple, especially when the multinational tech company was working on its search capabilities to compete with Google, reports The Information.

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