Meta hires Apple’s top AI executive Frank Chu as company tells managers to prioritize….

Meta has hired Frank Chu, another senior Apple executive who worked on artificial intelligence (AI), reports Bloomberg. Chu led the iPhone maker’s AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training and search. Citing people aware of the matter, the report says that Chu will be joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, specifically on the infrastructure team that handles AI systems. The development comes amidst recent reports that said that the company has frozen AI hiring, prohibiting both internal team transfers and external hirings.

Frank Chu is the sixth Apple AI executive to move to Meta in recent months. The wave started in July when Ruoming Pang, head of Apple’s AI models team, left for Meta in a deal reportedly worth $200 million.