Overview

• Meta confirmed that Ruoming Pang, head of Apple’s foundation models team, will join its Superintelligence Labs with a compensation package worth tens of millions per year.
• At Apple, Pang managed a roughly 100-person group developing the large language models behind Apple Intelligence features such as email summaries, Priority Notifications and Genmoji.
• Meta also recruited OpenAI researcher Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic veteran Anton Bakhtin as Mark Zuckerberg consolidates top AI talent under his Superintelligence Labs.
• Apple’s AI efforts have been hampered by postponed Siri feature rollouts and internal contention over relying on in-house models versus third-party solutions.
• Experts caution that Apple could face additional departures from its foundation models group as the team navigates morale challenges and strategic uncertainty.