{"id":48121,"date":"2025-07-08T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48121\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:39:13","slug":"meta-reportedly-recruits-apples-head-of-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48121\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta reportedly recruits Apple&#8217;s head of AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple\u2019s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-07\/apple-loses-its-top-ai-models-executive-to-meta-s-hiring-spree?srnd=phx-technology\" target=\"_blank\">is leaving the company to work at Meta<\/a>, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the latest high-ranking AI executive Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped up to lead his new AI superintelligence unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pang previously ran Apple\u2019s in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features, according to the report. Apple\u2019s AI models haven\u2019t exactly been a huge success \u2014 they\u2019re far less capable than what OpenAI, Anthropic, and even Meta offer. Apple has reportedly even <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/30\/apple-reportedly-considers-letting-anthropic-and-openai-power-siri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered tapping third-party AI models<\/a> to power its forthcoming AI-enabled Siri upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources told Bloomberg that Pang\u2019s departure might be the first of many in Apple\u2019s troubled AI unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nevertheless, Pang could bring expertise in designing small, on-device AI models to Meta, joining an array of talent Zuckerberg has poached in recent months, including leaders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Safe Superintelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[239,64,339,340,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-48121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-in-brief","11":"tag-meta","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114816481261780763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}