Meta offers a salary of millions to poach AI talent: Researchers from Apple, OpenAI, and Anthropic are jumping ship.

As the artificial intelligence battlefield heats up, Apple (Apple) loses another key player. Pang Ruoming, a senior executive responsible for core AI model development, has confirmed his move to Meta, becoming a member of Meta's "Superintelligence (Superintelligence)" team. This not only highlights Meta's determination to attract talent with substantial resources but also once again exposes Apple's slow progress in the AI field.

Apple talent exodus: AI executives moving to Meta

Bloomberg reports that Apple is once again facing a talent exodus in AI. Sources reveal that Pang Ruoming (, a key figure responsible for foundational model development at Apple, has confirmed his departure to join competitor Meta.

Pang joined Apple in 2021 from Google's parent company Alphabet, leading the Apple Foundation Models )AFM( team, and is one of the key figures driving the development of Apple's AI models. It is reported that Meta offered a tempting salary of up to tens of millions of dollars to entice Pang to join, highlighting their high regard for AI talent.

For Apple, this personnel change is undoubtedly a significant blow, highlighting the lack of appeal of its AI strategy or compensation in the industry, and making the gap between Apple and competitors like Google, Meta, and OpenAI even more apparent.

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Meta's major move to recruit talent, creating a new front for "super intelligence".

The addition of Pang is a key part of Meta's effort to build the "Superintelligence )Superintelligence(" team. This team is led personally by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ) and focuses on developing AI models that can match or even surpass human intelligence. To assemble this elite team, Meta has recently launched a series of talent acquisition actions, sparing no expense in recruiting top talent from the industry.

Apart from Pang, Meta has successively recruited several individuals including Alexandr Wang, the founder of Scale AI, Daniel Gross, the founder of the AI venture capital fund NDFG, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Recently, Zuckerberg invited OpenAI researcher Yuanzhi Li and Anton Bakhtin, a member of the Anthropic Claude AI team, to a secret meeting at his residence in Silicon Valley, demonstrating his sincerity in poaching.

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Last month, Meta successfully poached 8 senior researchers from OpenAI within a week. Mark Chen, the research director at OpenAI, candidly stated in an internal letter, "It's like someone broke into our house and stole something."

With billions in funding, Zuckerberg is pouring money into the AI ecosystem.

Meta's investment in AI is no longer just a small addition; it is a major entry. The company announced that AI-related expenditures will reach hundreds of billions of dollars by 2025, mainly for infrastructure construction such as chips and data centers, paving the way for future large model training and deployment. From Zuckerberg personally stepping in to reorganize the AI team, it is clear that AI competition has been placed as the company's top priority.

The AI talent and technology war ignited by Meta will undoubtedly intensify competition among companies, and while Apple retains advantages in hardware and ecosystem, it seems to be making slow progress in the field of generative AI. With core technical talent leaving, whether Apple can catch up has also become a focal point of concern for investors.

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