July 7 (Reuters) - Apple's ( AAPL ) top executive in

charge of artificial intelligence models, Ruoming Pang, is

leaving the company for Meta Platforms ( META ), Bloomberg News

reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Pang, manager in charge of the company's Apple ( AAPL ) foundation

models team, will join Meta's new superintelligence team for a

compensation package worth millions of dollars per year, the

report added.

Meta and Apple ( AAPL ) did not immediately respond to Reuters

requests for comment.

The development comes as tech giants such as Meta

aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer

multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the

race to lead the next wave of AI.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized the company's AI

efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs,

Reuters reported last week.

The division will be headed by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of

data labeling startup Scale AI. He will be the chief AI officer

of the new initiative at the social media giant, according to a

source.

Last month, Meta invested in Scale AI in a deal that valued

the data-labeling startup at $29 billion and brought in its

28-year-old CEO Wang.