{"id":995669,"date":"2026-02-28T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995669"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:34:24","slug":"apples-senior-ai-engineer-who-joined-meta-leaves-after-8-months-to-join-sam-altmans-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/apples-senior-ai-engineer-who-joined-meta-leaves-after-8-months-to-join-sam-altmans-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s senior AI engineer who joined Meta, leaves after 8 months to join Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s hiring spree sees no end as the company has poached yet another top executive from Meta. According to a report by The Information, the ChatGPT-maker has hired Ruoming Pang, former AI Infrastructure head at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Pang, who has previously worked with Apple as \u2018Senior Distinguished Engineer\u2019, left Meta last week and has now joined the Sam Altman-led AI company. As per the report, he joined Meta last year for a pay package reportedly worth more than $200 million over several years and contingent on meeting certain milestones. The move was then a blow to Apple, which has been struggling to develop AI models and features for its devices.<\/p>\n<p>Pang\u2019s move to OpenAI comes amid a series of leadership changes within Meta\u2019s artificial intelligence division over the past year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s hiring spree sees no end as the company has poached yet another top executive from Meta. According to a report by The Information, the ChatGPT-maker has hired Ruoming Pang, former AI Infrastructure head at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Pang, who has previously worked with Apple as \u2018Senior Distinguished Engineer\u2019, left Meta last week and has now joined the Sam Altman-led AI company. As per the report, he joined Meta last year for a pay package reportedly worth more than $200 million over several years and contingent on meeting certain milestones. The move was then a blow to Apple, which has [&hellip;]<\/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-995669","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\/995669","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=995669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}