Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI models
Apple’s head of AI models, Ruming Pang, Let the company work at MetaBloomberg reported Monday. This marks the newest high-rise AI-Executive Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped up to lead its new AI Superintelligence unit.
Pang previously led the internal team from Apple that the AI Foundation models has trained that on the basis of Apple Intelligence and other AI functions on Device, according to the report. The AI models from Apple have not really been a huge success -they are much less capable than some OpenAI, Anthropic and even Meta offer. It is said that Apple has even considered tapping AI models from third parties to power its upcoming AI-enabled Siri upgrade.
Sources told Bloomberg that Pang’s departure is perhaps the first of many in the troubled AI unit of Apple.
Nevertheless, Pang could bring expertise in designing small AI models on the device to Meta, with a range of talent that Zuckerberg has poached in recent months, including leaders of Google DeepMind, OpenAi and Safe Superintelligence.
