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Apple AI search exec leaves for Meta amid talent war- Bloomberg

AuthorAmbar Warrick
Published 16/10/2025, 03:16
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Investing.com-- Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Ke Yang, who was recently appointed to lead an effort to develop a ChatGPT-like AI web search, has left the company to join Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. 

Yang was appointed to lead a team called Answers, Knowledge, and Information just weeks ago. The team was central to a planned, AI-driven overhaul of Apple’s Siri voice assistant, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. 

Yang has been at Apple since 2019, his Linkedin page showed, with his current designation being Senior Director of Machine Learning. He had formerly worked as a software engineer at Alphabet’s Google. 

Yang’s reported departure for Meta comes as the Mark Zuckerberg-led company aggressively poached AI executives from a slew of companies, and had also offered hundreds of millions of dollars to win employees from OpenAI. 

Meta had also poached other AI executives from Apple earlier this year. 

 

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