3 6 Ke·2025-07-09 00:17Core Insights - Ruoming Pang, head of Apple's AI models, is leaving to join Meta's "superintelligence" team, marking another significant talent acquisition for Meta following similar moves from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic [1] - Pang's career trajectory includes a 15-year tenure at Google, where he was a key contributor to the Tacotron 2 project in the fields of speech recognition and human-computer interaction [4][6] - At Apple, Pang led a team of approximately 100 people focused on developing models for Apple Intelligence, which supported various AI features announced at WWDC [9] Company Developments - Meta is actively building a strong AI team, having recently recruited several high-profile talents, including Yuanzhi Li from OpenAI and Anton Bakhtin from Anthropic, with Pang's compensation package reportedly worth tens of millions annually [13] - In contrast, Apple's AI team is experiencing turmoil, with reports of multiple engineers planning to leave for Meta and other companies, indicating potential instability within Apple's AI division [11] - Following Pang's departure, the Apple Foundation Models (AFM) team is now led by Zhifeng Chen, with a shift towards a more distributed management structure [11] Industry Context - The competition in the AI sector is intensifying, with major players like Meta, OpenAI, and Apple not only competing on technology and products but also on talent acquisition [15] - Apple's approach to AI has been described as conservative, focusing on a "device-first" philosophy that emphasizes privacy and local computation, which may hinder its competitiveness in the era of large models [15]