After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, Meta aims to hire a CEO

It continues to hire Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent Spree. In recent months, Meta has sought to acquire Safe Superintelligence, a $32 billion AI startup co-founded by former Openai chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. CNBC Thursday.

Sutskever ultimately beat Meta, according to CNBC, but the company is currently in talks to hire Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence. Earlier this week, the information reported it Meta was discussing to hire Gross.former Github CEO Nat Friedman. Meta also reportedly takes stock in the Friedman and Gross joint venture. nfdgwhich invests in prominent AI startups such as Plplexity and Character.ai.

Gross and Friedman have been able to significantly enhance Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab and add leaders with experience operating and investing at AI Research Labs. Earlier this month, Meta announced it We have Scales CEO Alexandr Wangand several executives from data label startups will join the company as well.