In goal (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), all media are good for debauchery, the cream of the engineers. As Bloomberg reports, Mark Zuckerberg’s company offered more than $ 200 million in Ruoming Pang, an Apple engineer, to join his new SuperintenTintelligence Labs goal division.
On the Cupertino side, Pang directed the team dedicated to artificial intelligence models, the “base models”. He worked in particular in the flagship characteristics of Apple Intelligence, such as email summaries, priority notifications or genmoji. For a very large check, and a sum bounced that in 2026 years according to sources close to the archive, therefore, will abandon Apple’s intelligence in difficulty for a goal AI with the wind in its candles.
A setback for Apple?
The 200 million promised dollars are ventilated in three components: a basic salary, a signature and target bonus, which constitute most of the amount.
A sum that goes far beyond the remuneration of the vast majority of the leaders of the Cupertino firm. A surprising fact, according to Bloomberg, Apple would not even have tried to align to stop his great mannou, when he has the media largely.
A choice that questions how the company seems to have a delay in AI career. In fact, due to internal conflicts, Apple had to suspend or delay certain elements of Apple Intelligence deployment, whose Siri review, announced in June 2024. The voice assistant will not be delivered until 2026. Last June, during the First World War, the AI even seemed to play a secondary role.
However, at the beginning of the year, the firm discreetly bought several new companies specialized in AI. Among them, WhyLabs, who works to make AI more reliable and to avoid “hallucinations.” The young outbreak allows to detect unexpected behaviors, errors or derivations of generative, a crucial point in real time to maintain user confidence.
A sign that Apple has not abandoned the deployment of artificial intelligence, but seeks to take a new strategic orientation by focusing on external companies. Tim Cook and his family would even begin to study the idea of a purchase of perplexity, known by Your search engine AND Your assistant who fits well on the iPhoneAccording to Bloomberg. Because as Cook recalled last October: “Apple does not need to be the first in terms of AI, but the best.”
Goal recruit AI stars
For its part, Meta puts the bite to become an important player in the sector. Because the former Apple engineer is not the only one that has been offered an amazing salary to join the ranks of the entity that supervises all the company’s artificial intelligence work.
Last week, goal recruited 11 new talents, promising substantial bonds. Among these newcomers, Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI (49% of the company’s capital was acquired by goalEditor’s note), several designers of the latest versions of Chatgpt, or Natf Friedman, an old man from Github.
Sam Altman, Managing Director of Openai, said Meta had offered an individual bonus in the firm More than $ 100 million to “many” open employeesAi, accompanied by a significant salary. But, in fact, only a few people who occupy very high management positions were offered such a sum. A large part is also linked to performance objectives.
Source: BFM TV
