Meta Poaches Top Apple Executive With Compensation Offer Reportedly in the Tens of Millions
A week after announcing its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) team, complete with 11 new hires poached from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, Meta has continued on its hiring spree, this time with a top Apple executive.
Meta confirmed to Bloomberg late Monday that Ruoming Pang, an engineer and manager in charge of Apple's AI models, is leaving Apple for Meta. Pang is the latest new hire for MSL, Meta's team in charge of pursuing superintelligence, or AI that surpasses human intelligence.
Sources told Bloomberg that Meta offered Pang tens of millions of dollars in annual compensation to incentivize him to make the jump from Apple to Meta. According to his LinkedIn page, Pang previously worked at Google for 15 years, leaving in 2021 to join Apple, where he headed a 100-person team responsible for the AI models that underlie Apple Intelligence.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 41, has lately been on a hiring spree to add more AI talent to Meta's ranks, personally assembling the MSL team.........
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