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 for talent in the

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been offering AI engineers massive pay packages to poach them from other companies, and a key Apple engineering

Another setback for the iPhone maker could put its AI future in jeopardy, or push it even closer to using models from OpenAI or Anthropic instead of developing its own.