Apple’s Lead AI Researcher for Robotics Heads to Meta as Part of Latest Exits
(Bloomberg) – Apple Inc.’s Robotics’s chief artificial intelligence researcher left the company to participate in the competitor efforts of Meta Platform Inc., a part of the iPhone manufacturer.
Employee Jian Zhang approved the social media company on Tuesday. Three AI researchers, according to people who have knowledge of the subject, Apple’s large -company language models are abandoning.
The latest separation series – John Peebles, Nan Du and Zhao Meng, all of which took place last week, people who want the movements not to be defined because they are not explained.
It was part of an Apple Foundation model team, all of which lost about 10 members, including the chef in recent weeks. The Group was at the center of the creation of the Apple Intelligence platform, which was released last year as part of the company’s proposal to AI.
Bloomberg News is discussing internally discussing whether Apple will rely on external technology more than home -growing models.
He goes to Peebles and Du Openai, and Zhao joins anthropic PBC. Many of his colleagues had already fled to Meta, which convinced the workers with surprising wage increases. Ruoming Pang, who manages Apple’s model team, has reserved for a multi -year, $ 200 million package.
Nevertheless, there was no completely smooth sail for the commodity. According to Wired, many of the recently hired AI researchers have already left.
Apple and Openai spokesman refused to comment on personnel changes. Antropic did not respond immediately to a request for a comment.
Robot researcher Zhang led the automation technology and a small academician team focusing on AI’s role in such products. This team, Zhang’s reports, Mario Srouji, with the AI products at Archer Aviation Inc. in April.
The Robotic Research Group is located in Apple’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning department. Earlier this year, the company moved to Apple’s hardware engineering department is separate from the robotic product development organization of the company.
Robotics has become a critical part of Apple’s future pipeline and the company plans a number of devices. Bloomberg includes a desktop with a moving screen, as well as a robotic arm to be used in retail stores and production.
Meanwhile, Meta is moving with its own products. In addition to offering smart glasses and AI features, Bloomberg invests in a large investment in an operating system and the underlying hardware components for humanoid robots.
Zhang will develop products in Robotics Studio, a part of the Meta’s reality laboratories.
According to People, Apple’s AI personnel are expected to continue their attempts. Apple said that bad reaction to Intelligence and the company’s potential shift to use third -party models contributed to the morale of worsening.
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