Apple’s head of AI fashions, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the corporate to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the most recent 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 accordance 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 provide. Apple has reportedly even thought-about tapping third-party AI fashions to energy its forthcoming AI-enabled Siri improve.
Sources instructed Bloomberg that Pang’s departure is likely to be the primary of many in Apple’s troubled AI unit.
Nonetheless, Pang may deliver experience in designing small, on-device AI fashions to Meta, becoming a member of an array of expertise Zuckerberg has poached in latest months, together with leaders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Secure Superintelligence.
