Meet Ruoming Pang: This former Apple Model’s head and Meta AI expert with a Rs 1,800 crore package just joined OpenAI

Recently, OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a senior AI leader who most recently worked at Meta and previously led foundation model efforts at Apple, reflecting the escalating battle among tech giants to secure the engineers and researchers shaping the next generation of artificial intelligence systems.

Pang’s career stretches across nearly two decades of major AI breakthroughs. His journey includes foundation models, infrastructure, and large-scale research that have evolved inside Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies.