Overview

• Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s 100-person foundation models team, joined Meta’s Superintelligence Labs with a compensation package worth tens of millions per year.
• Mark Zuckerberg reorganized Meta’s AI divisions in late June to focus on building ‘superintelligence’ and committed tens of billions to AI infrastructure this year.
• Meta’s aggressive hiring spree has brought in top AI leaders from Scale AI, OpenAI and Anthropic to bolster its next-generation AI research.
• Apple appointed Zhifeng Chen to head its foundation models group under a new distributed management structure following Pang’s departure.
• Internal debates at Apple over relying on in-house models versus outsourcing AI components for Siri have lowered team morale and driven the recent leadership changes.