{"id":218054,"date":"2025-12-06T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218054\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:45:12","slug":"dozens-of-apple-employees-have-moved-to-openai-and-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218054\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Apple Employees Have Moved to OpenAI and Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent series of executive departures from Apple<\/a> has reportedly been accompanied by moves further down the org chart.<\/p>\n

Those moves include dozens of employees who left Apple for OpenAI<\/a> and Meta<\/a> in recent months, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> Friday (Dec. 5), citing its study of LinkedIn<\/a> profiles.<\/p>\n

These employees include engineers and designers with expertise in areas such as audio, watch design and robotics, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The report noted that these moves are happening at a time when competitors are working to challenge the market share held by the iPhone and other parts of Apple\u2019s ecosystem, Apple is adjusting to the artificial intelligence (AI) era, and new devices are being developed to make the most of that technology.<\/p>\n

It added that Apple CEO Tim Cook<\/a>, who has shown no sign of stepping down, has this year overcome the threat of tariffs and returned the company\u2019s stock to record levels.<\/p>\n

PYMNTS reported Thursday (Dec. 4) that there have been several executive transitions<\/a> at Apple over the last 18 months.<\/p>\n

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This week alone saw announcements that the company\u2019s general counsel and its vice president for environment, policy and social initiatives are planning to retire; two designs leads moved to Meta; and its longtime machine learning chief is set to retire.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Apple\u2019s chief operating officer retired, and the company\u2019s chief financial officer role changed hands.<\/p>\n

While the WSJ reported that Cook has shown no sign of stepping down, the Financial Times reported in November that Apple\u2019s board and senior executives have stepped up preparations for Cook to turn things over to a new CEO. The report added that this is a long-planned transition<\/a> and unrelated to the company\u2019s current performance.<\/p>\n

Cook became CEO in 2011, just before the death of Steve Jobs. Under Cook\u2019s leadership, Apple\u2019s market capitalization has ballooned from $350 billion in 2011 to $4 trillion.<\/p>\n

Global market research firm Counterpoint Research<\/a> said in November that Apple is set to overtake Samsung as the world\u2019s top seller<\/a> of smartphones and hold that title through 2029. Counterpoint attributed Apple\u2019s gains to the popularity of its new iPhone 17 series.<\/p>\n

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