Meta poaches AI engineer for $200m

Meta Platforms, which owns several social
media platforms, including Facebook and
Instagram, has hired Ruoming Pang
(right), Apple’s leading AI engineer
in charge of developing Apple
Intelligence, in a reputed
$200 million deal

META IS POACHING SILICON
VALLEY AI ENGINEERS TO BUILD
ITS “SUPERINTELLIGENCE LABS”

Ruoming Pang
Joel Pobar
Nat Friedman
Alexandr Wang
Daniel Gross
Johan Schalkwyk
Pei Sun
Jack Rae
Trapit Bansal
Lucas Beyer
Shuchao Bi
A. Kolesnikov
Hongyu Ren
Jiahui Yu
Xiaohua Zhai
Shengjia Zhao

Apple
Anthropic
GitHub
Scale AI
Safe Superintelligence
Sesame AI
Google DeepMind
OpenAI

Pang studied computer
science in China
and U.S.

Meta CEO Mark
Zuckerberg has
lured away top
talent from OpenAI,
Anthropic, GitHub,
Google and others with
hefty remuneration packages

Sources: Bloomberg, Sherwood
Pictures: Social media, Getty Images
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