Apple Loses Another Key AI Leader to Meta's Superintelligence Labs

Apple has had yet different AI enforcement poached by Meta, contempt reports that the societal networking institution is slowing hiring (via Bloomberg).


Frank Chu, 1 of Apple's squad leaders focused connected unreality infrastructure, training, and search, volition articulation Meta's Superintelligence Labs, a part tasked with gathering precocious AI systems susceptible of performing astatine oregon beyond human-level intelligence.

Chu was progressive with managing Apple's cloud-based ample connection models (LLMs), and was besides influential successful processing hunt features for Siri and Apple's amusement services. For Meta, Chu volition enactment connected a caller squad called MSL Infra, liable for AI infrastructure development.

Meta has spent billions of dollars connected recruitment for its Superintelligence radical successful caller months, but the institution is said to beryllium slowing down hiring implicit concerns of an overheated market. The intermission went into effect past week amid a broader restructuring of the group.

Fears that investments successful AI are moving excessively accelerated weren't helped by reports earlier this week that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a radical of journalists that helium believes AI is successful a bubble. There was a broader sell-off of U.S. exertion stocks pursuing the news.

Apple has hemorrhaged astir a twelve artificial quality unit to rivals since January. The exodus of unit from Apple's AI squad implicit the past 7 months has seen elder researchers permission variously for Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Cohere, and others.

One of the astir notable caller departures was Ruoming Pang, caput of Apple's Foundational Models team, who joined Meta past period aft being lured by CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a $200 cardinal wage package.

The endowment drain coincides with Apple's conflict to update Siri by integrating LLMs. A chatbot-like mentation of the virtual adjunct was 1 of the cardinal Apple Intelligence features that Apple promoted astatine past year's WWWDC, but it has yet to arrive.

Apple is said to beryllium considering utilizing third-party AI models for Siri alternatively than its in-house technology, pursuing an enforcement restructuring. During Apple's caller net call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the institution is "making bully advancement connected a much personalized Siri" that is powered by Apple Intelligence, and helium reiterated that the features volition beryllium available adjacent year.
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