Mark Zuckerberg’s AI expertise hiring spree continues. In latest months, Meta tried to accumulate Secure Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, in response to a report from CNBC on Thursday.
Sutskever in the end turned Meta down, in response to CNBC, however the firm is now in talks to rent Secure Superintelligence’s co-founder and CEO, Daniel Gross. Earlier this week, The Data reported that Meta was in talks to rent Gross, in addition to former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Meta can also be reportedly taking a stake in Friedman and Gross’s three way partnership agency, NFDG, which has invested in outstanding AI startups resembling Perplexity and Character.AI.
Gross and Friedman may considerably beef up Meta’s AI superintelligence lab, including leaders who’ve expertise operating and investing in AI analysis labs. Earlier this month, Meta introduced that Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and a number of other executives from the information labeling startup, would be a part of the corporate as effectively.
