Hua Er Jie Jian Wen·2025-07-29 20:29Group 1 - Apple has lost its fourth AI researcher to Meta within a month, with Bowen Zhang leaving to join Meta's newly formed superintelligence team [1] - Meta has successfully recruited key personnel from Apple's AFM team, including team leader Ruoming Pang, who received a compensation package exceeding $200 million [3] - The AFM team, crucial for Apple's AI strategy, is experiencing turmoil due to the loss of key members and uncertainty about its future direction [7] Group 2 - Following the news of personnel losses, Apple's stock price fell by 1.5% to $210.82, marking a 15% decline for the year [5] - Apple is considering shifting from its self-developed models to third-party models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude for its new Siri voice assistant [7][8] - Apple's focus on user privacy and local processing of AI tasks limits its ability to compete with rivals that utilize cloud-based systems with trillions of parameters [9]