United Kingdom, July 30 -- Apple has lost its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta Platforms Inc.

Bowen Zhang, a multimodal AI expert and a key member of Apple's foundation models group (AFM), reportedly left the company on Friday (25.07.25) to join Meta's recently formed superintelligence team, according to Bloomberg.

Zhang's departure follows those of Ruoming Pang - the former AFM leader at Apple - and researchers Tom Gunter and Mark Lee, all of whom have joined Meta in recent weeks.

Pang was reportedly offered a compensation package worth more than $200 million, and Meta is said to be aggressively hiring top AI talent across Silicon Valley.

Apple's AFM group is responsible for developing the core AI models that power Apple Intel...