Meta Hires Former Apple AI Exec Frank Chu Amist Hiring Slowdown

Meta has poached yet another Apple AI executive to join the Superintelligence Labs team, developing advanced AI systems for the company. The new hiring process was complete despite reports that Meta is slowing down on hiring.

Word comes by way of Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who reports that Frank Chu, who previously led Apple AI teams, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. Chu’s work at Apple surrounded the development of cloud infrastructure, training and AI search. The former Apple exec also managed LLMs running on Apple’s cloud servers and the training of the software. Chu is also reported to have worked on developing search functions for Siri and Apple’s entertainment services.

Meta has been consistently luring Apple employees over to the company. Chu now joins several colleagues who used to work for Apple. This includes the head of Apple’s AI models team. According to Gurman, Meta has scooped up at least six Apple employees since July, when it was reported that Meta had hired Ruoming Pang, who was in charge of creating Apple’s models team. Meta has also hired former Apple AI engineers Tom Gunter, Mark Lee, Bowen Zhang and Yun Zhu

Moving over to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, Chu will become a part of the MSL Infra team, in charge of AI infrastructure. Meta has recently split its AI efforts into four sections, supervised by former Scale AI head Alexandr Wang.

Meta is reported to be slowing down in hiring efforts, despite the recent talent acquisition of Chu. The social media company’s hiring has seen billions being spent over the recent months. While it may appear as though the company might be slowing down on hiring talent, the company is steadfast in investing more into the Superintelligence Labs division.

“We are truly only investing more and more into Meta Superintelligence Labs as a company, Wang recently said on X (formerly Twitter) this week. “Any reporting to the contrary of that is clearly mistaken.”