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Meta Hires Apple AI Researchers Mark Lee and Tom Gunter for Superintelligence Lab

The addition of former Apple engineers reinforces Zuckerberg’s campaign to assemble elite researchers for an AGI program backed by massive compute investments.

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Overview

  • Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, key members of Apple’s Foundation Models team, have joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, reuniting them with former boss Ruoming Pang
  • Their recruitment follows Meta’s recent hiring of OpenAI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung to bolster its artificial general intelligence efforts
  • The Superintelligence Lab is led by Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang under CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s direct oversight
  • Meta has dangled multiyear compensation packages reported to exceed $100 million to lure leading AI researchers and prompt retention efforts at rivals
  • Parallel investments include building multi-gigawatt AI clusters such as the Prometheus supercluster expected online by 2026 and the Hyperion system to power advanced research