Overview

• Meta recruited Ruoming Pang, formerly head of Apple’s AI models team, with a compensation package reportedly exceeding $200 million.
• A $15 billion investment in ScaleAI brings founder Alexandr Wang to Meta as chief AI officer and positions Superintelligence Labs at the center of its AI research push.
• Reid Hoffman argued that eye-watering pay can be justified by the potential industry-transforming impact of advanced AI breakthroughs.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized the upfront compensation strategy as “crazy” and culture-poor, a point Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly disputed.
• Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner warned that Meta may struggle to retain its new AI hires as competitors prepare counteroffers and Apple engineers consider similar exits.