Apple’s head of AI fashions, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the online portal high-ranking AI government Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped as much as lead his new AI superintelligence unit.
Pang beforehand ran Apple’s in-house group that skilled the AI basis fashions that underpin Apple Intelligence and different on-device AI options, in keeping with the report. Apple’s AI fashions haven’t precisely been an enormous success — they’re far much less succesful than what OpenAI, Anthropic, and even Meta supply. Apple has reportedly even considered tapping third-party AI models to energy its forthcoming AI-enabled Siri improve.
Sources informed Bloomberg that Pang’s departure is perhaps the primary of many in Apple’s troubled AI unit.
However, Pang might convey experience in designing small, on-device AI fashions to Meta, becoming a member of an array of expertise Zuckerberg has poached in current months, together with leaders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Protected Superintelligence.