A pple is dealing with some internal changes in its AI team after one of its top AI executives, Ruoming Pang, left the company to join Meta. Meta offered Pang a very high-paying job, reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars a year, according to Bloomberg.

Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models is leaving for Meta Platforms Inc., another setback in the iPhone maker’s struggling AI efforts.

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