Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI models

Apple’s head of AI fashions, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the most recent high-ranking AI government Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped as much as lead his new AI superintelligence unit.

Pang beforehand ran Apple’s in-house workforce that skilled the AI basis fashions that underpin Apple Intelligence and different on-device AI options, in line with the report. Apple’s AI fashions haven’t precisely been an enormous success — they’re far much less succesful than what OpenAI, Anthropic, and even Meta provide. Apple has reportedly even considered tapping third-party AI models to energy its forthcoming AI-enabled Siri improve.

Sources informed Bloomberg that Pang’s departure could be the primary of many in Apple’s troubled AI unit.

However, Pang may convey experience in designing small, on-device AI fashions to Meta, becoming a member of an array of expertise Zuckerberg has poached in latest months, together with leaders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Secure Superintelligence.