Overview

• Bowen Zhang, a multimodal AI researcher, became the fourth member of Apple’s foundation models group to join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs this month.
• Apple has implemented marginal pay increases for its foundation models staff that still lag far behind offers from competitors.
• The company is actively evaluating external large language models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, for its next Siri upgrade.
• Apple’s commitment to on-device, privacy-focused processing limits the computational power of its AI models compared with cloud-based rivals.
• Executives John Giannandrea and Craig Federighi have sought to reassure remaining researchers about the strategic importance of in-house model development.