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Meta Poaches Apple AI Leader for Superintelligence Push
UNITED STATES, JUL 8 – Ruoming Pang, leader of Apple's AI foundation models, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs amid internal debates and delays in Siri's AI, with Meta offering a multi-million-dollar package.
- Ruoming Pang, Apple's top AI models executive, announced his departure to join Meta's new Superintelligence Lab in July 2025.
- Pang’s exit follows internal morale issues and a shift to a distributed management structure after previous concentrated leadership under him.
- At Apple, Pang led a 100-person foundation models team underpinning Apple Intelligence, while Meta concurrently hired other prominent AI experts.
- Meta offered Pang a multi-million-dollar package amid a broader recruitment drive adding startups' founders and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Pang’s departure signals ongoing talent competition in AI and may foreshadow further Apple AI team exits as Apple struggles to match rivals’ capabilities.
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The race of big tech companies to control the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has no truce and Silicon Valley giants do not hesitate to spend millions to win.So, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has just made an important and million-dollar move.Meta has signed a renowned artificial intelligence expert from his rival Apple, Ruoming Pang, who will earn more than $200 million (170 million euro…
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WASHINGTON: Meta Platforms has made a bold move in the escalating race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominance by hiring Ruoming Pang, one of Apple’s top artificial intelligence leaders, according to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, reported the German Press Agency (dpa). © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
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