Mark Zuckerberg now hires top Apple exec for the unit that made OpenAI ‘shutdown’ for one-full week

It seems Facebook-and Instagram parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still not done shopping talent for his new AI superintelligence unit. According to a report in Bloomberg, Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the iPhone maker to work at Meta. This marks the latest high-ranking AI executive that Mark Zuckerberg has poached to be part of his new AI superintelligence unit. With this, the Apple exec joins an array of talent Zuckerberg has poached in recent months, including leaders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Safe Superintelligence.

Pang is said to be a key part of Apple’s in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that are said to underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features.