Apple’s Head of AI Models Joins Meta
Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, 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.
Apple’s AI Challenges
Pang previously ran Apple’s in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features. Apple’s AI models haven’t exactly been a huge success compared to competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.
Sources told Bloomberg that Pang’s departure might be the first of many in Apple’s troubled AI unit.
