Overview

• Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s roughly 100-member foundation models team, has accepted a Meta offer worth tens of millions of dollars per year to join its Superintelligence Labs.
• Meta has also hired OpenAI researcher Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic veteran Anton Bakhtin as part of its ongoing talent-acquisition push.
• Apple’s 100-member foundation models team now reports to multiple managers under Zhifeng Chen instead of directly to its former lead.
• Morale within Apple’s AI division has reportedly dipped, and several engineers are considering departures following the leadership changes.
• Meta has committed tens of billions of dollars in 2025 to AI infrastructure and research as it races toward next-generation superintelligence.