US EditionMeta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO
- In 2025, Meta sought to purchase Safe Superintelligence, an AI company valued at $32 billion and co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, but he declined their offer.
- Meta’s acquisition attempt followed Sutskever’s departure from OpenAI and his launch of Safe Superintelligence in 2024 alongside Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.
- Following an unsuccessful acquisition attempt, Meta brought on board Daniel Gross, CEO of Safe Superintelligence, along with Nat Friedman, who previously led GitHub. Additionally, Meta invested $14.3 billion to acquire a 49% ownership in Scale AI, appointing its founder, Alexandr Wang, to head a newly established AI lab.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta offered signing bonuses up to $100 million and high annual compensation to lure talent, but none of OpenAI’s best people accepted these offers.
- Meta’s aggressive AI talent recruitment and investments suggest a strategic push to advance superintelligence development amid competition with OpenAI and other firms.
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Meta approached artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI about a potential takeover bid, CNBC confirmed. The two companies did not finalize a deal, and Perplexity ultimately walked away from the discussions, according to a source. Meta recently invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI and tried to buy another startup called Safe Superintelligence, as CNBC previously reported. Meta approached artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI about a…
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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO
Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company’s AI team, according to sources.
Meta recruits Safe Superintelligence CEO after failed acquisition attempt
Meta has recruited Daniel Gross, the CEO of OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI). SSI, which was founded in 2024 by Sutskever, Gross, and notable AI researcher Daniel Levy, was valued at $32 billion in April. Meta originally planned to acquire the startup, however, it ended up recruiting Gross instead when Sutskever turned down both the acquisition deal and the company’s attempts to hire him. Soon after the fai…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, wants to lead the career of a superintelligent AI and wants to achieve it through multimillion dollar contracts. Last week, the company...
Meta has entered the AI talent war in earnest by recruiting the CEO of a superintelligence startup founded by Ilya Sutskever, the father of 'ChatGPT', and even securing a stake in a venture fund. After failing to acquire it, it began embracing its close associates and looking for a replacement.
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