{"id":302501,"date":"2026-02-26T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:07:11","slug":"openai-hires-ex-apple-models-head-from-meta-the-information-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302501\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI hires ex-Apple models head from Meta, The Information reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> has hired Ruoming Pang, a high-profile AI \u200cresearcher at Meta, who had joined \u200cthe company from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> about seven months \u200bago, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing an OpenAI spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Meta and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters&#8217; requests \u200cfor comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Pang \u2060oversaw <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> infrastructure for Meta&#8217;s Superintelligence Labs, which is \u2060developing the company&#8217;s next generation of AI models. He left Meta last \u200bweek after \u200bbeing aggressively \u200brecruited by OpenAI \u200cfor several months, the report added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Pang joined Meta last year on a compensation package valued at more than $200 million over several years, according to a \u200cBloomberg report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Meta and its \u200bpeers are fueling \u200ba fierce \u200bSilicon Valley talent war through \u200caggressive hiring as tech \u200bfirms offer \u200bmulti-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to \u200blead the \u200cnext wave of AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u200bRajveer Singh Pardesi in Bengaluru; Editing \u200bby Rashmi Aich)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a high-profile AI \u200cresearcher at Meta, who had joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[351,363,898,111,139,69,165873,165874,145],"class_list":["post-302501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-meta","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ruoming-pang","tag-superintelligence-labs","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}