Overview

• Mark Lee has already joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab and former Apple Distinguished Engineer Tom Gunter is set to follow soon.
• These hires come after Meta’s $200 million recruitment of Ruoming Pang, underscoring its drive to assemble an elite team for general AI development.
• Apple’s AI division has seen multiple departures from its foundation model team and is now increasing pay and stock incentives to retain remaining staff.
• Facing talent losses, Apple is weighing integration of external foundational models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude into Apple Intelligence.
• Meta has not disclosed compensation for Lee and Gunter as it lines up hundreds of billions in funding for its superintelligence efforts.