Meta poaches Apple AI engineer Ruoming Pang with a jaw-dropping $200 million pay package, shaking up the AI job market. Pang, who led Apple’s AI models team, joins Meta’s new superintelligence team, which is hiring top talent to build AI smarter than humans.

Ruoming Pang previously worked for Google where he led impactful projects that went on to become integral to the search giant’s operations.

Ruoming Pang previously ran Apple's in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features.