Meta Poaches Top Apple Executive With Compensation Offer Reportedly in the Tens of Millions
Sherin Shibu
created: July 8, 2025, 3:20 p.m. | updated: July 8, 2025, 8:50 p.m.
Meta's latest hire for its superintelligence group is a former manager who led a 100-person team at Apple.
Meta confirmed to Bloomberg late Monday that Ruoming Pang, an engineer and manager in charge of Apple's AI models, is leaving Apple for Meta.
Pang is the latest new hire for MSL, Meta's team in charge of pursuing superintelligence, or AI that surpasses human intelligence.
Sources told Bloomberg that Meta offered Pang tens of millions of dollars in annual compensation to incentivize him to make the jump from Apple to Meta.
One term of the deal was that Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang join Meta as its Chief AI Officer and MSL lead.
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