Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has reportedly forked over “tens of millions of dollars” to poach one of Apple’s top artificial intelligence researchers as the tech giant continued to add to a murderers’ row of high-paid talent.
Ruoming Pang, who led the team responsible for developing Apple’s AI models, will become the latest member to join Meta’s new “Superintelligence Lab,” Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
Meta reportedly lured Pang, who had worked at Apple since 2021, with a compensation package “worth tens of millions of dollars per year,” the sources said.
The company also recently hired away researchers Yuanzhi Li from OpenAI and Anton Bakhtin from Anthropic.
Meta has hired one of Apple’s top AI researchers. REUTERS
In all, Meta has poached more than a dozen top AI researchers since last week, purportedly offering compensation packages worth $100 million or more to win the AI arms race