Meta Poaches Two More Apple AI Executives

After poaching 1 of Apple's apical artificial quality executives with a $200 cardinal wage package to lure him distant from the company, Meta has present hired 2 of his subordinates, Bloomberg reports.


Apple's Mark Lee and Tom Gunter are acceptable to articulation Meta's Superintelligence Labs team, a recently established part tasked with gathering precocious AI systems susceptible of performing astatine oregon beyond human-level intelligence.

Earlier this month, Ruoming Pang joined Meta. Until recently, helium led Apple's instauration models team. Models developed by Pang's squad are utilized for Apple Intelligence features similar email summaries, Priority Notifications, and Genmoji. Lee was Pang's archetypal prosecute astatine Apple, portion Gunter was seemingly known arsenic 1 of the team's astir elder members.

Meta has been spending heavy connected caller unit and engineers to support up with advancements from OpenAI and Google. Apple is reportedly present offering immoderate engineers raises successful an effort to clasp them, but they are inactive substantially little than Meta's offers.

Bloomberg notes that the 3 departures "reflect the continuing turmoil astatine the Apple Foundation Models team." Apple is present believed to beryllium considering a large alteration of strategy by utilizing outer models from the likes of OpenAI oregon Anthropic to powerfulness Siri and different ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features owed to the shortcomings of its ain models.

Apple is simultaneously processing versions with some its ain models and third-party technology, and has not yet decided which to usage arsenic the instauration for ‌Apple Intelligence‌ opening adjacent year.
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