Accordingly, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter - two senior members of Apple's Foundation Models group, have officially joined the Superintelligence Labs department at Meta.
These are people who have worked directly with Ruoming Pang - former manager of the AI model group at Apple - who joined Meta Platforms' Superintelligence Labs department with a package of more than 200 million USD. Mark Lee is known as the first employee Pang hired when he started building an AI research team at Apple. Meanwhile, Gunter is a veteran engineer, considered one of the most influential figures in the group.
It is known that Mark Lee left Apple and started working at Meta a few days ago. Meanwhile, Tom Gunter, after leaving Apple in June 2025, worked briefly at an AI startup before deciding to move to Menlo Park to join Pang's Superintelligence Labs team.
These two latest recruitment deals continue the eye-catching departure of Pang himself - who was a leader of large language models (LLM) at Apple to Meta. When this information was announced, many industry experts predicted that more senior Apple employees would move to Meta, and now that is gradually becoming a reality.
It can be seen that Meta's ambition for artificial intelligence is reaching an unprecedented level. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently affirmed that AI is a top priority for the company and the series of rushed recruitment moves in recent times shows that Meta is seriously promoting a strong and calculated talent recruitment strategy.
Meta has previously quietly attracted many AI talents from direct competitors such as OpenAI and Google. But now, the company seems to be taking advantage of internal disruption at Apple - where leaders are still debating whether to continue developing internal AI or integrating third-party models to Siri and other features.
In that context, the working spirit of AI groups at Apple is said to be declining. Many engineers feel they are being blamed for the recent mistakes and shortcomings of the " Tao Dynasty". Taking advantage of this sensitive moment, Meta quickly took action to find a way to attract the dis motivated personnel before Apple can regain stability.
