The major departure, the most significant in Apple’s AI ranks since the company started working on Apple Intelligence a few years ago, underscores the heightened competition for talent in the

Apple's head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving to join Meta's new AI superintelligence unit, marking another significant hire for Mark Zuckerberg. This move follows Meta's aggressive recruitment of AI talent from companies like Google DeepMind and OpenAI.

Bloomberg reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s latest high-priced AI hire is Apple’s foundation AI model leader, Ruoming Pang, based on an offer worth “tens of millions of dollars per year,” plus Yuanzhi Li from OpenAI and Anton Bakhtin from Anthropic.