OpenAI has hired Ruomin Pang, a former Apple AI models team leader who recently worked at Meta Platforms, according to a report from The Information. Pang had joined Meta about seven months ago after leading Apple's Foundation Model team for at least four years, according to their LinkedIn profile.

The hiring underscores the intense competition for AI talent among tech giants, with frontier companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, along with major players such as Meta, aggressively recruiting high-profile researchers. Meta has been particularly aggressive in this talent war, reportedly offering researchers hundreds of millions of dollars to join its AI efforts and even poaching talent from competitors like OpenAI.

This latest hire continues the trend of AI talent moving between major tech companies as they race to advance their artificial intelligence capabilities. The competition for top AI researchers has become increasingly fierce as companies seek to gain advantages in developing next-generation AI models and applications.