
Meta ropes in two senior Apple AI researchers
18 Jul 2025, 11:52 AMThe social media company has roped in Mark Lee and Tom Gunter to join its Superintelligence Labs division.
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Meta Platforms has brought on board two prominent artificial intelligence specialists from rival firm Apple, the Bloomberg News reported citing unidentified people, continuing its recent pattern of attracting talent from rival firms.
The social media company has roped in Mark Lee and Tom Gunter to join its Superintelligence Labs division.
Lee has already begun his role at Meta after departing from Apple just days ago, while Gunter is expected to start his position in the coming weeks, the report said.
This strategic hiring represents Meta's ongoing efforts to strengthen its AI capabilities by targeting experienced professionals from Apple's research teams.
Earlier this month, Meta hired Apple's top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, Ruoming Pang.
Zuckerberg went on a hiring spree after first making a significant investment in data labeling company Scale AI last month. As part of the deal, he also brought in Scale AI's co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead Meta's superintelligence unit as chief AI officer.
Wang wrote on X that he will be working alongside former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Wang also listed the names of other employees hired by Meta from rival companies OpenAI and DeepMind.
Later, Meta also roped in Safe Intelligence's co-founder and CEO Daniel Gross. This prompted Ilya Sutskever to formally step into the role of CEO at Safe Intelligence, which he had launched last year after leaving OpenAI.