Meta's poaching of a top Apple Intelligence executive has been a costly exercise, with the social giant doling out $200 million for the worker.

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,

Meta Platforms has reportedly offered a more than $200 million pay package to poach Apple’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, as the Facebook parent builds up its new “Superintelligence” AI division.