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Mark German is reporting that,

Rowling Pang, the head of Apple's Foundation Models AI team, is leaving to join Meta,

which offered a pay package worth tens of millions of dollars per year.

Quote, at Apple Pang had been running a roughly 100-person team responsible for the company's

large language models, which underpin Apple Intelligence and other AI features on the company's devices.

In June, Apple announced that those models would be opened up to third-party developers for the

first time, allowing for a range of new iPhone and iPad apps. But internally, the Foundation

models team has come under scrutiny from new leadership, which is exploring the use of third-party models, including from either OpenAI or Anthropic to power a new version of Siri.

Those internal discussions have soured some of the morale on the Foundation Models team, also known as AFM, in recent weeks.

While the company has explored a move to third-party solutions

to power the AI in the new Siri, it has simultaneously been working on a new version of Siri

based on the models developed by Pang's group. Those models also power Apple intelligence

features that run on Apple devices, including email and web article summaries, Gen Moji, and priority

notifications. The major departure, the most significant in Apple's AI ranks since the company

started working on Apple Intelligence a few years ago, underscores the heightened competition

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