Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI fashions

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

Pang beforehand ran Apple’s in-house crew that educated the AI basis fashions that underpin Apple Intelligence and different on-device AI options, in response to 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 supply. Apple has reportedly even thought-about tapping third-party AI fashions to energy its forthcoming AI-enabled Siri improve.

Sources advised Bloomberg that Pang’s departure is likely to be the primary of many in Apple’s troubled AI unit.

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