Apple’s top AI executive, Ruoming Pang, is leaving for Meta, marking a major blow to the iPhone maker’s foundation models team, Bloomberg reported. Pang oversaw the group behind Apple’s large language models and will join Meta’s new superintelligence division.

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The major departure, the most significant in Apple’s AI ranks since the company started working on Apple Intelligence a few years ago, underscores the heightened competition for talent in the