Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is offering massive pay packages to AI engineers in a hiring spree, leading to Apple losing a key AI executive to Meta.
Ruoming Pang, who managed a team working on Apple's large language models, is moving to Meta, attracted by a lucrative deal worth tens of millions of dollars per year.
Meta has been recruiting AI experts from various companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Scale AI.
Apple's struggle to compete in AI features has led to internal impact, as the company faced delays in its promised Siri features and recently underwent AI team restructuring.