Apple’s AI models director, Ruoming Pang, will leave the company to join the finish deepen the debate on real capacity of Cupertino’s firm in current fashion technology.
The hiring of Pang would be the last high profile signing carried out by goal in an ambitious program that has promoted its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. At the same time, Pang’s departure could be the first of many in the problem of Apple’s artificial intelligence unit.
Apple’s AI, to debate
According to the Bloomberg report, Pang previously directed the Internal Apple team in charge of training the basic AI models that support the technology behind Apple Intelligence, the ecosystem that Apple has developed to bring functions of AI to its devices.
As for the goal, they expect Pang to contribute their experience in the design of small AI models for devices, adding to a set of talents that Zuckerberg has captured in recent months, including high -level profiles from Google Deepmind, OpenAi and Safe Superintelligence.
For Apple it can be a new inconvenience. Although at the recent WWDC25 conference he presented numerous ads related to AIsuch as allowing external developers to access their foundational models to create AI functions; The new version of Xcode that takes advantage of the third -party LLM or the translate app that will be included as a function of the Apple Intelligence and will be integrated into their operating systems to translate text, voice and conversations, analysts believe that Apple is still delayed in the face of its competitors.
Apple’s models have not been precisely a great success. They are much less effective That those who offer OpenAi, Anthropic and Meta and even, according to the rumors that arrive from Silicon Valley, the company has considered using third -party AI models to boost its next update of the Siri virtual assistant.
Specifically, it is said that Apple would be in conversations with Google To add the Gemini wizard to iPhones as an alternative to the OpenAi chatgpt and their own developments. This collaboration was not announced at the Development Conference, since both companies expect the final decision on Google’s search agreement with Apple. And this will depend on the judicial decision estimated in the case against Google of course monopoly in the Internet searches sector.
Other news (not confirmed) say that Apple has started internal conversations to assess a possible purchase or alliance with the Perplexity AI specialized firm, founded in 2022 by former Openai and Deepmind researchers.
