Apple faces great challenges in its efforts for artificial intelligence, because another key researcher leaves the company to join the ambitious Superintelligence project of META. The departure refers to the fourth AI expert to leave the Apple Foundation Models team for just a month and raise questions about the future of Apple Intelligence and AI strategy.
Apple loses the fourth research worker AI per month on meta
Bowen Zhang, a key multimodal AI researcher who worked at the Apple Foundation Models Group (AFM), left the company on Friday to join Meta’s refcement -established Superintelligence team. Bloomberg‘With Mark Gurman reported. Zhang helped develop basic technology that has powered by Apple Intelligence, AI platform, which launched last year across iPhone, iPad and Mac devices. His departure is followed by the others who started Ruoming Pang.
The AFM team, which consists of several dozen engineers and scientists divided between Cupertino Apple and New York’s office, was the backbone of Apple AI ambition. However, the group now faces the exodus of the talent, which is threatened to derail the progress of AI of society.
Aggressive acquisition of talents of meta
Meta was particularly aggressive in Apple Ai Talent poaching. Meta offers compensatory packages that exceed what Apple provides. Giant Social Media was previously hired by Pang, led by the Apple Foundation Models, with a package worth more than 200 million. Two other scientists, Tom Gunter and Mark Lee, also recently made a jump to the meta.
In responsibility for this departure, Apple began to increase employees for the remaining AFM employees, regardless of whether they threatened to leave. However, sources suggest that these salaries still do not reach what competitors offer, making it difficult to maintain top talents.
Ucretaintay Clonds Apple Ai Future
The departure of a key personal personality created an insignificant uncertainty in Apple AI Division, reported. In particular, Pang played a central role in defining the direction of team research and plan. With his departure, several team members state that the future direction of the AFM group is unclear and other engineers are actively looking for opportunities at other times.
Apple Executifs adds to riots, allegedly considering the main strategic shift that could include more AI third-party models than to continue to develop everhytinging in-house. These potential changes in the direction have created one of the remaining team members and contributed to low morality.
The future of Siri’s future
Perhaps most new Apple users, the company is investigating the possibility of powering the new Siri version using external AI models from companies such as Openi or Anthropic rather than rely only on Apple’s own technology. This represents a potential conversion of Apple’s traditional approach to the development of critical technologies.
At the same time, the company is working on Siri contestants – one powered by external models and the other based on new AFM models. Although no final decision was made, mere consideration of outsourcing of this basic technology has created further uncertainty with the AI team.
Personal Data Protection Restrictions Capacity
Apple’s obligation to protect user data, even if it is awarded customers, has created technical limitations that make Haerard to compete with rivals. The preference of AI task processing on devices rather than in the cloud means that Apple Intelligence works with normally less computing power than comitent systems.
Apple Intelligence primarily uses a model for devices with 3 billion parameters, while competitors offered cloud systems with trillion parameters. Although Apple fees have its own cloud model, it works on approximately 150 billion parameters – still far below industry leaders.
Leadership trying to make the remaining team
Apple executives, including AI chief John Giannandre and Craig Federighi, have tried to reassure the remaining members of the AFM team that their work is remodeling essential for the AI strategy. They emphasized Apple’s commitment to the internal development of the model and attracted parallels to the successful transition of the company to design its own chips.
However, nail departures and strategic uncertainty suggest that Apple is facing significant challenges while maintaining talent and based on its competitive position in the rapidly developing landscape of AI. For Apple users, this development could affect the pace of improvizes on Apple Intelligence and other Ai-performance features throughout the company’s product line.
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