🤖 Meta poaches top AI exec from Apple — the AI race heats up
Apple is losing one of its key AI leaders: Ruoming Pang, head of its foundation models team, is leaving for Meta. The move strengthens Meta’s hand in the battle for superintelligence.
🤔 What we know
⚫ Pang led a team of ~100 engineers responsible for the models powering Apple Intelligence and the new Siri
⚫ Meta offered him a compensation package worth tens of millions of dollars per year
⚫ At Meta, Pang will join Mark Zuckerberg’s elite AI group, which already includes the former GitHub CEO and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic
⚫ Meta has ramped up hiring recently, with Zuckerberg personally involved in recruitment talks
🍎 What’s happening at Apple
⚫ Pang’s team built the core models behind Apple Intelligence, Priority Notifications, and Genmoji
⚫ Internal disagreements and the company’s plan to integrate third-party models (OpenAI, Anthropic) have weakened morale
⚫ Apple already lost another top executive — Tom Granger — just a month ago
⚫ Zhifeng Chen will now lead the AFM team, with internal restructuring underway
📌 Pang’s exit has sparked rumors of more talent jumping ship to Meta. Despite Apple’s recent AI announcements, it’s still lagging in the race for dominance.
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