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In a development that amounts to A severe blow to Apple’s efforts in artificial intelligence“Bloomberg” agency revealed the departure of the manager responsible for the company’s basic models team, BangTo join its advanced rival in this field, MetaPlatforms. This step comes in light of… Apple is witnessing an increasing loss of its technological personnel specialized in artificial intelligenceamid huge financial temptations offered by “META” to attract the most prominent minds in the world.
Pang leaves for “Meta” for tens of millions
Pang, who moved to Apple from Alphabet in 2021, is one of the most prominent names in the world of artificial intelligence. According to Bloomberg sources, Meta offered him a financial package amounting to tens of millions of dollars annuallyTo lead its efforts in developing “super intelligence” models.
This deal comes within A fierce polarization campaign led by Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerbergwhich has made artificial intelligence a top priority for the company, seeking to compete with industry giants such as OpenAI andGoogle.
Mass migration from “Apple” to “Meta”
The matter does not stop with Bang only Reports indicate an expected wave of departures Within Apple’s Foundation Models team (known as AFM), where A number of engineers informed their colleagues of their intention to leave the company sooneither to “Meta” or to other competing companies.
The move was preceded by a departure Tom Guntherone of Pang’s senior representatives, last month, indicating Erosion of the AI team’s confidence in Apple’s strategy New.
Zuckerberg is betting on “super intelligence”
For his part, Mark Zuckerberg recently restructured the artificial intelligence teams in Meta, focusing on… Developing “Superintelligence” technologiesthat is, systems capable of carrying out tasks at levels exceeding human intelligence.
“Meta” has been included in recent months An elite group of senior researchersThe most prominent of them are:
- Alexander Wang (Scale AI)
- Daniel Gross (Prominent technical founder)
- Nat Friedman (Former CEO of GitHub)
- Yuanzi Li (from OpenAI)
- Anton Bakhtin (from Anthropic)
Apple faces internal challenges and strategic confusion
According to Bloomberg, the AFM team inside Apple He suffers from low moraledue to internal discussions about using external models such as OpenAI to update the voice assistant Siri, which sparked Feeling distrustful of the new company’s leadership Towards the internal AI team.
Although Apple announced in June 2025 that it would open its large language models to third-party developers, this progress has not been translated into Internal confidence or stabilityespecially in light of the company’s search for external partnerships to develop the new Siri model.
Analysis: Has Apple lost its compass in the artificial intelligence race?
These developments indicate that Apple It is starting to lose momentum in the AI raceAfter being one of the leading companies in the field of innovation. At a time when “Meta” is moving steadily towards building High-performance artificial intelligence systemsApple is floundering in its internal decisions and is facing… Severe lack of retention of technology talent.
In a market where artificial intelligence determines the future of companies, Apple’s loss to the AFM team may be the beginning of a decline in its competitiveness against giants such as Meta, OpenAI, and Google..
Summary of the scene: “Meta” wins, “Apple” falters
- ✅ Meta offers millions of dollars in salaries to attract minds.
- ⚠️ Apple loses its engineers due to poor vision and internal leadership.
- 📉 Competition for artificial intelligence is turning into A race to attract talent Not just ideas.
