Overview

• Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s 100-engineer foundation models team behind Apple Intelligence features like Genmoji and text summarization, has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs with a multi-million-dollar annual package.
• Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, launched July 1 after a June restructuring, has also brought on OpenAI researcher Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic’s Anton Bakhtin as it pursues advanced AI capabilities.
• Apple’s foundation models group now reports to Zhifeng Chen under a distributed management structure after internal debates over whether to rely on in-house models or partner with OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Several engineers from Apple’s AFM team have signaled plans to leave, suggesting Pang’s exit may trigger a broader talent drain that could challenge Cupertino’s AI ambitions.
• The recruiting drive reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure and research this year as Meta races toward artificial general intelligence.