Meta simply employed Apple’s head of basis fashions

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Apple’s high govt overseeing its in-house AI fashions is leaving the corporate, and heading to Meta. As reported by Bloomberg, Ruoming Pang is certain to Menlo Park, and becoming a member of Mark Zuckerberg’s all-star Meta Superintelligence Labs group, introduced final week.

Apple’s AI setbacks simply carry on coming

Pang joined Apple from Google in 2021, and had been managing the roughly 100-person crew behind the fashions that energy Apple Intelligence options like Genmoji, Precedence Notifications, and on-device textual content summarization.

His exit marks one more blow to Apple’s efforts to construct aggressive AI fashions in-house. Pang is claimed to have acquired a multi-million-dollar annual provide from Meta, as a part of Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive push to assemble a dream crew of AI expertise, and he wasn’t the one rent reportedly confirmed as we speak:

“Meta on Monday additionally employed Yuanzhi Li, a researcher from OpenAI, and Anton Bakhtin, who labored on Claude at Anthropic PBC, in accordance with different folks with data of the matter.”

Bloomberg notes that Pang’s group had been central to Apple’s plans for a next-gen Siri expertise, at the same time as inner debate reportedly mounted over whether or not to stay with its personal fashions or embrace third-party choices like OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s fashions.

In latest months, Meta has introduced in huge names like Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, OpenAI’s Yuanzhi Li, and Protected Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross.

I’m excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an unbelievable group of individuals becoming a member of on the identical day.

In the direction of superintelligence 🚀 pic.twitter.com/2ACj1lKN9Q

— Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) July 1, 2025

Sources inform Bloomberg that Pang’s departure won’t be the final:

“Pang’s departure may very well be the beginning of a string of exits from the AFM group, with a number of engineers telling colleagues they’re planning to depart within the close to future to Meta or elsewhere, the folks mentioned. Tom Gunter, a high deputy to Pang, left Apple final month, Bloomberg reported on the time.”

The AFM crew will now be led by Zhifeng Chen. Not like the earlier construction, the place most engineers reported on to Pang, the brand new hierarchy introduces a extra distributed administration construction, with a number of managers presumably together with Chong Wang, Zirui Wang, Chung-Cheng Chiu, and Guoli Yin.