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Monday, September 14, 2026
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Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

Person

Ruoming Pang

Lately: Meta as Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs, from Apple.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

Recorded moves

  1. Ruoming Pang → Meta as Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs, from Apple (Head of AI Foundation Models)

    The most expensive individual offer reported in the two-year window, and the clearest sign Apple had become a supplier of AI talent rather than a destination for it.

    hirereportedBloomberg: Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta's Hiring SpreeJul 7, 2025

In the archive

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Biggest AI Hires of 2025

    Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.

  • Hiring & Talent

    Meta Superintelligence Labs: The Raid and the Reckoning

    Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman and Shengjia Zhao built Meta's superintelligence unit in a single summer of nine-figure offers and then spent a year restructuring around the researchers who stayed.

  • Hiring & Talent

    Apple's AI Exodus and the Ternus Transition

    Ruoming Pang's move to Meta, John Giannandrea's retirement, a licensed Gemini-powered Siri and John Ternus's hardware-engineer path to chief executive trace Apple's patched AI leadership.

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Compensation Revolution

    Meta's nine-figure packages and a run of license-and-hire deals worth billions, from Microsoft's Inflection buyout to Google's Windsurf pickup, show incumbents paying for entire research teams while structuring around the merger review a straight acquisition would trigger.