Apple loses its top AI models executive to Meta’s hiring spree

Ruoming Pang, the distinguished engineer and manager responsible for the company’s Models Apple Foundation team, he leaves, according to people who have knowledge of the issue. Pang, who joined Apple from Alphabet Inc. said. In 2021, the latest major rental for the new Superteigence team in Meta, the people who refused to designate the moves of unannounced individuals said.

To secure Pang, Meta offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars annually, people said. The CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg is working on the recruitment splash, bringing the leaders of Amnesty International including Alexandr Wang from Scale Ai, the founder of operating start Daniel Gross and former CEO of GitHub Nat Friedman with great compensation.

On Monday, Meta also rented Yuanzhi Li, a researcher from Openai and Anton Bakhtin, who worked on Claude in the human PBC, according to other people who have knowledge of the issue.

Mita refused to comment. Apple and Pang did not immediately respond to the comment.

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In Apple, Pang was running a team of approximately 100 people responsible for the company’s large language models, which support Apple Intelligence and other artificial intelligence features on the company’s devices. In June, Apple announced that these models will be opened for third -party developers for the first time, allowing a set of new iPhone and iPad applications.

But internally, the Foundation Models team is scrutinized from a new driving, which explores the use of third -party models, including either Openai or Anthropic, to run a new version of Siri. These internal discussions have sparked some morale of the Foundation Models team, also known as AFM, in recent weeks.

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While the company explored the transition to a third -party solution to run artificial intelligence in the new Siri, it worked simultaneously on a new version of Siri based on the models developed by the Pang collection. These models also operate the Apple Intelligence features that work on Apple devices including email summaries, web sites, Genmoji notifications and priority notifications.

The main departure, the most important on AUP ranks in Apple since the company began working on Apple Intelligence a few years ago, emphasizes the increasing competition for talent in the emerging space. Meta offers offers of engineers in the world worth millions of dollars annually – much more than the iPhone maker for his engineers who do similar work.

People said that the departure of Pang may be the beginning of a series of exits from the AFM group, as many engineers tell that they are planning to leave in the near future to the definition or anywhere else. Tom Gunter, Senior Vice -Pang, left Apple last month, Bloomberg said at the time.

The Foundation’s Models team reports to Duffy Long, a senior deputy vice president, AI John Jianndria. Earlier this year, Giannandrea was marginalized internally and saw Siri, Robotics, Core ML Frameworks and other consumer products from his leadership. This came after a bad response to the Apple intelligence and the frequent delay of the new Siri features.

With the departure of Pang, the AFM team will now be managed by ZHIFING CHEN. In a change from the structure under Pang where most engineers have been informed directly, there will be a new organizational planning that includes many managers who reports to Chen, who will then be engineers who reports them. People close to the team indicate that Chong Wang, Zirui Wang, Chung-Chang Chiu and Guoli Yin can be potential managers in the new structure.

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The Apple AI strategy is now opened primarily by Craig Federight, Head of Software Engineering in Apple and Mike Rockeeil, who helped create the Apple Vision Pro headphone and now leads Siri engineering. For his part, Jianandria is responsible for the AIP research arm. In June, at the International Developers Conference, AI’s AI got only a small offer, as it appeared in new features to translate calls and text messages.

The features of the other few artificial intelligence, including the analysis of the screenshots on the device and the generation of improved images, came as a compliment to partners, including Openai and Google. The company has also launched a new version of Xcode that can handle the completion of software instructions by benefiting from Claude and ChatGPT.