Meta has hired two AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, from Apple, shortly after recruiting their former boss, Ruoming Pang. This move follows Apple's struggles in AI development and Meta's strategy to attract top talent with generous compensation packages.

Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg ’s push toward advanced forms of A.I.

Just days after hiring Ruoming Pang, who had led Apple’s foundation model team, Meta is reuniting him with two former colleagues.