Meta, Zuckerberg and Superintelligence
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Meta offered one of Apple's top artificial intelligence executives over $200 million to lure him away from the company, Bloomberg reports.
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Mark Zuckerberg wooed another elite researcher with pay package in the tens of millions, continuing a recruitment push.
Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg ’s push toward advanced forms of A.I.
Meta Platforms has reportedly offered a more than $200 million pay package to poach Apple’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, as the Facebook parent builds up its new “Superintelligence” AI division.
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Under Cook’s leadership, both as CEO, and before that as COO, Apple brought its most important technologies in-house. It designs its own chips, manages its own supply chain, and oversees a services ecosystem that generated nearly $100 billion in revenue last year alone.
Ruoming Pang previously ran Apple's in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features.
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Meta Platforms Inc. has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a more than $200 million package for a former Apple Inc. distinguished engineer.
Apple's top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company for Meta Platforms , Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
Meta finalized the hire within a week, securing an AI leader with a compensation package combining salary, bonus, and stock tied to long-term results.
Meta is on a hiring spree for its superintelligence lab, with two OpenAI researchers reported joining the company. Here’s what we know