Appleβs 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 Appleβs in-house group that skilled the AI basis fashions that underpin Apple Intelligence and different on-device AI options, in line with the report. Appleβs AI fashions havenβt precisely been an enormous success β theyβre far much less succesful than what OpenAI, Anthropic, and even Meta provide. Apple has reportedly even thought of tapping third-party AI fashions to energy its forthcoming AI-enabled Siri improve.
Sources informed Bloomberg that Pangβs departure may be the primary of many in Appleβs troubled AI unit.
However, Pang may convey experience in designing small, on-device AI fashions to Meta, becoming a member of an array of expertise Zuckerberg has poached in current months, together with leaders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Protected Superintelligence.
