Meta finalized the hire within a week, securing an AI leader with a compensation package combining salary, bonus, and stock tied to long-term results.

After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

Meta poached former Apple manager Ruoming Pang with a compensation package in the hundreds of millions of dollars, marking a new compensation high in the AI talent wars. Meta confirmed on Monday that it hired Pang to join its superintelligence team,