Overview

• Ruoming Pang departed Apple’s foundation models team to join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs in the latest recruitment push.
• Meta also brought in prominent researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Safe Superintelligence, including Daniel Gross, Ilya Sutskever, Nat Friedman, Yuanzhi Li and Anton Bakhtin.
• The new hires bolster Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, established under Alexandr Wang in late June, strengthening its most ambitious AI research arm.
• Backed by advertising revenue, Meta is offering compensation packages that exceed typical funding for investor-dependent rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Mark Zuckerberg is personally spearheading the talent campaign, extending direct invitations to candidates, including visits to his home.