OpenAI Hires Former Meta and Apple AI Researcher
OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a former AI researcher at Meta who previously led model development at Apple. The move is part of an ongoing talent war among major technology companies for top AI researchers and engineers. The hire comes amid rumors of a potential $50 billion investment in OpenAI from Amazon, tied to a future IPO.
- Before his recent high-profile moves, Ruoming Pang spent 15 years at Google, where he co-founded and was the sole technical lead for Zanzibar, the company's global authorization system. He also co-led the development of the Lingvo deep learning framework for speech recognition. - At Apple, Pang led the Foundation Models team of over 100 engineers, a group considered pivotal to the company's AI strategy for features like Siri and Apple Intelligence. His team specialized in creating compact, efficient AI models that could run directly on devices, aligning with Apple's focus on user privacy.
