Back in January, when Chris Lattner was announced Tesla’s newest hire after the departure of David Nister as its head of computer vision, it caused something of a stir in the Silicon Valley set.
Lattner’s foray into the automotive sector came after a solid 11 year stint at Apple Inc marked by a legacy of effusive colleagues and significant technical contributions to the company’s most important operating system software, and most recently, was responsible for the creation of their Swift programming language.
It has now been roughly six months since the talent transfer, and the former Apple star engineer has now apparently called it quits at Tesla as their VP of Autopilot Software, taking to Twitter to confirm it.
Of course, life goes on at Tesla, as many of his responsibilities have now been spread between the company’s Autopilot division hardware team lead, Jim Keller, and will be aided soon by new hire Andrej Karpathy, who will join the company as Director of AI and Autopilot Vision, reporting to Keller, who will oversee both the hardware and software aspects of the self-driving technology going forward.
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