【Zuckerberg Poaches Apple AI Executive with Tens of Millions in Annual Salary】 An executive responsible for artificial intelligence models at Apple is set to move to Meta Platforms (META.O), marking another setback for Apple's (AAPL.O) struggling AI efforts. According to sources, Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and manager on Apple's foundational model team, is about to leave. To entice Pang, Meta has offered an annual salary in the tens of millions. Meta CEO Zuckerberg has been aggressively hiring, bringing in several AI leaders with high salaries.