<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false">Ruoming Pang, manager of Apple’s foundational models team, has joined Meta after being offered a lucrative package.Pang worked at Apple as a 'distinguished software engineer' since 2021, following a 15-year tenure at Google.Meta also hired researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg focuses on building a 'superintelligence' team.Apple faced challenges retaining talent, with senior executive Tom Gunter leaving and engineers of MLX almost leaving before counteroffers.