Apple Continues Losing AI Experts to Meta

A 4th Apple artificial quality adept has near the institution to articulation Meta, reports Bloomberg. Bowen Zhang, who was connected Apple's instauration models team, is the latest worker to wantonness Apple for Meta.


The person of Apple's instauration models group, Ruoming Pang, was 1 of the first Apple AI researchers to articulation Meta. Since then, respective employees who worked nether him person besides near for Meta. Meta is aggressively hiring for its Superintelligence Labs, an AI part that's gathering precocious AI systems susceptible of performing astatine oregon beyond human-level intelligence.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been offering AI engineers monolithic compensation packages to lure them from different companies, and Pang reportedly received implicit $200 million. Pay from Meta reportedly includes a precocious basal salary, a signing bonus, and banal awards, and the wealth offered to Pang exceeds the compensation of astir each Apple employees but for executives. Presumably, the different AI engineers that near Apple person besides received offers that Apple isn't consenting to match.

Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta had been offering signing bonuses arsenic precocious arsenic $100 million. Meta has hired engineers and AI experts from Apple, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Bloomberg says Apple is "marginally increasing" the wage of its instauration models team, but is not paying astatine the level that Meta is.

With Apple losing cardinal employees to Meta, it could proceed to conflict to drawback up successful the AI race. Competitors similar Google and Samsung person overmuch much precocious AI features already, and this year, Apple was forced to hold promised Apple Intelligence Siri features until 2026.

Apple has been restructuring its AI teams, with AI efforts present overseen by Apple bundle main Craig Federighi and Mike Rockwell, who led Apple Vision Pro development. Rumors suggest that Apple is considering utilizing exertion from Anthropic oregon OpenAI for aboriginal AI features, including an LLM mentation of ‌Siri‌, alternatively than its ain models.

Apple's discussions to trust connected third-party AI exertion person reportedly led to falling morale connected the instauration models squad that is present losing employees to Meta. Multiple engineers are reportedly actively interviewing for jobs astatine different AI companies, portion Apple executives are aiming to reassure squad members that it remains committed to in-house AI development.
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