US EditionMeta 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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