US EditionMeta Poaches Apple’s Siri Strategist as AI Talent War Intensifies; Which Techies Have Jumped Ship to Zuckerberg's Firm?
Meta continues to strengthen its AI team by hiring Ke Yang, who led Apple's AI search project developing ChatGPT-like features for Siri, amid Apple’s internal leadership changes.
- Ke Yang, an Apple executive, is departing for Meta Platforms Inc., according to people with knowledge of the move; he had only weeks ago been appointed to lead Apple's Answers, Knowledge and Information team.
- Amid a Silicon Valley hiring spree, Meta Platforms Inc. has intensified recruiting high-profile AI executives from rivals as Apple faces internal instability while racing to catch up with OpenAI and Google.
- The AKI group was formed earlier this year to develop a ChatGPT-like search and Answers feature for Siri, with Ke Yang recently reporting directly to John Giannandrea, Apple's senior vice-president of AI.
- Apple is relocating the AKI team under Benoit Dupin following Ke Yang's departure, while remaining members expect more exits and Chong Wang left for Meta last week.
- Meta's prior hires from Apple, including Frank Chu, underscore a pattern of poaching senior AI talent as roughly a dozen members of Apple Foundation Models, including Ruoming Pang, have departed recently.
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Apple's recently promoted AI executive, Ke Yang, has left the company to join Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. Yang joined Apple in 2019 and was recently appointed head of AKI (Answers, Knowledge and Information) to work on a ChatGPT-like search option. However, he left the iPhone-maker within a few weeks to join Meta. 📲 Meta Hiring Spree: Ke Yang, Another Apple’s AI Executive Leaves Company After Getting Promoted to AKI Team, Joins Mark Zuckerberg’s Fi…
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