Mark Zuckerberg has pulled off another top-flight coup in Silicon Valley's raging AI talent war by hiring Apple's chief of its foundation model team, Ruoming Pang, to join Meta Platforms' new "Superintelligence" unit, a source with knowledge of the hire confirmed to the Wall Street Journal.

Ruoming Pang, who currently leads Apple's foundation AI models, is leaving to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Pang's departure underscores challenges in Apple's AI division and Meta's aggressive bid for AI supremacy.

In a major move in the ongoing AI talent war, Meta has hired Ruoming Pang, the executive who led Apple’s AI model efforts, to join its newly formed Superintelligence Labs division. Pang previously oversaw Apple’s Foundation Models (AFM) team, which was instrumental in shaping the company’s next-gen AI systems, including an upgraded Siri.