Apple has lost its lead Safari designer, Marco Triverio, who is moving to work for The Browser Company, maker of the AI-centric browser Dia.

While Apple saw a number of departures in 2025 due to the tech industry's battle to secure AI talent, it seems that the fight has not concluded yet. In an extremely early career move for 2026, a designer for Safari has shifted to a different employer.

In an X post, The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller proclaimed that Apple's "lead Safari designer" had just joined his company. In a similar post on LinkedIn, Miller actually says that it's Marco Triverio who had jumped ship from Apple to The Browser Company.

It is unclear exactly when Triverio left Apple. Miller's January 7 post says he "just joined" his firm.

Miller continues to point out that The Browser Company also employs Charlie Deets, who previously was a human interface designer at Apple. Having worked on Safari, as well as Home, Privacy, Accessibility, and Screen Sharing, Deets moved over to The Browser Company in April 2024.

Having both Triverio and Deets at The Browser Company is apparently significant to Miller, who writes that the firm now has the lead designers from "every Safari era" overlapping the existence of the Arc and Dia browsers.

In his own LinkedIn post, Deets claims he is "extremely excited" to be working with Triverio again. Over on X, Deets shares the sentiment via a Dragon Ball Z GIF.

Miller goes on to say "We're not messing around this year" on LinkedIn, as well as an expletive-based version on X, before inviting more people to work for the company.

A bigger AI browser push

In a follow-up post on X, Miller explains that he wants to build the best team of AI interface and product talent, and to "treat these exceptional individuals like artists and craftspeople that they are."

After accusing rival browser makers of copying Dia, Miller writes that he believes the future of computing is in the browser. This belief is forcing the company to further invest in employees and to improve the company's browsers even more.

While it is unclear whether Miller will ultimately be right about the browser's future importance, it's something that has already been touched by AI in a number of ways.

More directly, this has included OpenAI releasing the ChatGPT Atlas browser with built-in AI tools in October. In November, Google added a new button to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS for an "AI Mode" intended to speed up searches.

Though Apple is seemingly lagging behind in the field, it too has made steps to include more AI in Safari. This has included text summarization tools and a Web Eraser to get rid of persistent elements of a webpage, building on top of its existing Apple Intelligence work.