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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By Mark Gurman, Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models is leaving for Meta Platforms Inc., another setback in the iPhone maker’s struggling AI efforts. Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and manager in charge of the company’s Apple foundation models team, is departing, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Pang, who joined Apple from Alphabet Inc. in 2021, is the latest big hire for Meta’…
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