Overview

• Meta has onboarded Mark Lee and is poised to welcome Tom Gunter to its Superintelligence Labs team.
• Lee and Gunter previously collaborated with Ruoming Pang on Apple’s Foundation Models group before joining Meta.
• The hires mark the latest in Zuckerberg’s aggressive talent raid that has targeted top researchers at Apple, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other rivals.
• Zuckerberg has pledged to invest hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure, including massive superclusters in Ohio and Louisiana, to support advanced AGI research.
• Analysts warn that lavish compensation packages and rapid hiring could strain Meta’s near-term profitability and disrupt team morale.