Overview

• Ruoming Pang departed Apple on July 8 to join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs after accepting a multimillion-dollar annual compensation package.
• Meta completed an AI division overhaul at the end of June that centralizes research under a Superintelligence Labs set to receive tens of billions in 2025 funding.
• Apple’s 100-person foundation models team has been reassigned under Zhifeng Chen in a new multi-manager hierarchy to distribute leadership responsibilities.
• Since June, Meta has recruited high-profile AI figures including Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang, OpenAI’s Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic’s Anton Bakhtin to bolster its superintelligence push.
• The talent shift highlights Apple’s internal debate over in-house versus third-party models for Siri and intensifying competition for scarce AI research expertise.