Meta has hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, to join its Superintelligence Labs division. This follows a wave of high-profile hires from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as Meta builds its AGI team.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been offering AI engineers massive pay packages to poach them from other companies, and a key Apple engineering

Apple’s AI strategy is steered by software head Craig Federighi and Mike Rockwell; the engineering lead behind the Vision Pro and now Siri. Meanwhile, AI research remains under John Giannandrea, who was recently stripped of direct oversight of key AI consumer products amid delays and criticism of Apple’s AI rollout.