{"id":33266,"date":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33266\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","slug":"meta-continues-its-plunder-of-ai-talent-by-hiring-a-researcher-from-apple-aapl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33266\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Continues Its Plunder of AI Talent by Hiring a Researcher from Apple (AAPL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media firm Meta Platforms <a data-ticker=\"META\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/meta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(META)<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/news\/meta-just-poached-three-of-googles-googl-gold-medal-ai-researchers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continuing to add top talent to its Superintelligence Labs team<\/a>, according to Bloomberg. The latest hire is Bowen Zhang, a multimodal <a data-autolink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/compare-stocks\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> researcher from tech giant Apple <a data-ticker=\"AAPL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/aapl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(AAPL)<\/a> who helped build the AI platform that supports Apple Intelligence. Zhang left Apple last week and plans to join Meta in order to develop advanced AI systems that can achieve artificial general intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of <a data-link=\"article_promo\" href=\"https:\/\/lp.tipranks.com\/july-2025-50off\/?llf=rss&amp;timer=on&amp;coupon=INTRO50P\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> TipRanks Premium at 50% off! <\/a> Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret by now that Meta CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/experts\/insiders\/mark-zuckerberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> has been assembling what he calls an \u201celite, talent-dense team\u201d for Superintelligence Labs. In fact, last week, he announced that Shengjia Zhao, one of the co-creators of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, would become the unit\u2019s chief scientist. Zhao is expected to report to Alexandr Wang, the co-founder of Scale AI, who recently joined Meta as chief AI officer after the company acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI, which was valued at $14.3 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Meta has also attracted researchers from rivals such as OpenAI, Google <a data-ticker=\"GOOGL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/googl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(GOOGL)<\/a> DeepMind, Apple, and Anthropic. Indeed, some notable hires from OpenAI include Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Hongyu Ren, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai. As a result, Meta is aggressively positioning Superintelligence Labs as one of the most competitive teams in the race toward advanced AI.<\/p>\n<p>Is Meta a Buy, Sell, or Hold?<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Wall Street, analysts have a Strong Buy consensus rating on META stock based on 41 Buys, four Holds, and zero Sells assigned in the past three months, as indicated by the graphic below. Furthermore, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/meta\/forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">average META price target<\/a>\u00a0of $761.55 per share implies 7.8% upside potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/meta\/forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2212-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2246083\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/meta\/forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more META analyst ratings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/glossary\/d\/disclaimer-disclosure\" style=\"margin-right: 32px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disclaimer &amp; Disclosure<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/glossary\/c\/contact-editor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report an Issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media firm Meta Platforms (META) is continuing to add top talent to its Superintelligence Labs team, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-33266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}