After the “200 million job”: Meta AI, other Apple Ki employees advertise

Facebook operator META has succeeded in picking up other employees from Apple’s AI department. After the spectacular takeover of the basic model manager for allegedly up to $ 200 million (paying over several years and especially in meta shares) this would now be Apple employees number two and three that could attract meta.

“Superintelligence” by Meta

According to a report of the Financial news agency Bloomberg It is direct employees of Ruoming Pang, the head of the Apple language models, which Meta had taken over for the said $ 200 million at the beginning of the month. Mark Lee and Tom Gunter should now also work in the “Superintelligence Lab” from Meta that CEO Mark Zuckerberg had set up in order to have general artificial intelligence built, a “superintelligence”.

Lee is said to have already started at Meta, Gunter episode “in the near future,” say informed circles. Both ex-Apple employees are said to have worked closely with Pang. Lee was apparently Pang’s first employee at Apple, whom he hired himself, while Gunter was a “Distinguished Engineer” at Apple, who was one of the high -ranking experts in the team.

Uncertainty at Apple

Gunter apparently came to Meta: After his post at Apple, he went to another AI company before going to meta. In Apple’s AI department, which is responsible for Apple Intelligence, META’s revenue success apparently ensures uncertainty. All three employees were in the so-called Apple Foundation Model team, which is supposed to drive Apple’s in-house Large Language models (large language models)-an area where Apple is behind the competition, according to industry assessments. The technology should finally make the voice assistant Siri better.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is increasingly considering relying on basic models from other providers. Chatgpt can already be used (with) in Apple Intelligence, but Apple is apparently also interested in Claude from Anthropic. The iPhone manufacturer is said to have started to increase wages (or share allocations) to his AI team so that they remain. Around 100 people are currently still working there, it said. How much money Gunter and Lee get from Meta is not leaked. According to reports, meta wants to put hundreds of billions in “superintelligence”. The important AI employees therefore have their desk very close to Zuckerberg. According to his own statements, he wants to create an “elite team with the highest talent density in the industry”.