Apple AI head Ruoming Pang joins Meta as Zuckerberg boosts superintelligence team

Ruoming Pang, Apple’s top executive in charge of AI foundation models, is leaving Apple to join Meta. Pang joined Apple in 2021 from Alphabet Inc. and led the team behind Apple’s foundation models that power Apple Intelligence and AI features, as stated by the reports.

He’s now moving to Meta’s new “Superintelligence” team, where he’ll earn tens of millions of dollars per year, according to Bloomberg’s sources. This move is a big loss for Apple, whose internal AI team, called AFM – Apple Foundation Models, has been under pressure lately, according to the reports.