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Ruoming Pang

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

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Jul 7
Ruoming Pang to Meta as Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs
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.
hirereportedJul 7, 2025Bloomberg: Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta's Hiring Spree

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.