OpenAI Hires Meta AI Infrastructure Lead

OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a high-profile AI researcher who left Meta last week, The Information reported on Feb. 26, 2026. Pang oversaw AI infrastructure for Meta's Superintelligence Labs and had joined Meta from Apple about seven months earlier on a package reportedly worth more than $200 million, highlighting intensified multi-million-dollar recruitment competition among tech firms.