{"id":101943,"date":"2025-08-22T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:56:07","slug":"meta-hires-another-apple-ai-leader-amid-headcount-freeze-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101943\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Hires Another Apple AI Leader Amid Headcount Freeze, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> KEY TAKEAWAYS<br \/>\nMeta Platforms is reportedly hiring another senior AI executive from Apple for its Meta Superintelligence Labs, where it is moving to freeze headcount.According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, the Facebook parent is hiring Frank Chu, who has led Apple AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training, and search.Chu is at least the sixth Apple employee working on AI models to defect to Meta, the report said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> Meta Platforms (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/markets\/quote?tvwidgetsymbol=META\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">META<\/a>) is reportedly hiring another senior AI executive from Apple (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/markets\/quote?tvwidgetsymbol=AAPL\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAPL<\/a>) for its Meta Superintelligence Labs division, where it is moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/meta-freezes-ai-hiring-as-surging-costs-raise-concerns-report-says-11794976\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">freeze headcount<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, the Facebook parent is hiring Frank Chu, who has led Apple AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training, and search. Chu is at least the sixth Apple employee working on AI models to defect to Meta. The most recent hire is Ruoming Pang, the head of the iPhone maker\u2019s AI models team, the report said.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> Bloomberg said Chu \u201chelped manage the running of large language models on Apple cloud servers and oversaw some training of the software.\u201d He also worked on creating search functions for the Siri voice assistant and entertainment services, the report said.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> Apple and Meta didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> Apple shares, which entered Friday down 10% this year, are up slightly in morning trading. Meta shares are little changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEY TAKEAWAYS Meta Platforms is reportedly hiring another senior AI executive from Apple for its Meta Superintelligence Labs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-101943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}