{"id":959547,"date":"2025-09-05T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959547"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:27:22","slug":"apples-lead-ai-robotics-researcher-zian-jhang-quits-after-10-years-joins-meta-robotics-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/05\/apples-lead-ai-robotics-researcher-zian-jhang-quits-after-10-years-joins-meta-robotics-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s lead AI robotics researcher Zian Jhang quits after 10 years, joins Meta Robotics Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s lead AI researcher for robotics Zian Jhang has left the company to join Meta. According to a Bloomberg report, Jian Zhang has joined the Meta Robotics Studio on September 2. As per the report, three other AI researchers have left Apple\u2019s in-house large language models (LLMs) team. Citing unnamed sources speaking on the condition of anonymity, the report said that these three employees include John Peebles, Nan Du and Zhao Meng. They were all part of an Apple Foundation Models team. While Pebbles and Du are joining OpenAI, Meng is reportedly heading to Anthropic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s lead AI researcher for robotics Zian Jhang has left the company to join Meta. According to a Bloomberg report, Jian Zhang has joined the Meta Robotics Studio on September 2. As per the report, three other AI researchers have left Apple\u2019s in-house large language models (LLMs) team. Citing unnamed sources speaking on the condition of anonymity, the report said that these three employees include John Peebles, Nan Du and Zhao Meng. They were all part of an Apple Foundation Models team. While Pebbles and Du are joining OpenAI, Meng is reportedly heading to Anthropic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}