Mark Zuckerberg’s AI expertise hiring spree continues. In current months, Meta tried to accumulate Secure Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, in accordance with a report from CNBC on Thursday.
Sutskever in the end turned Meta down, in accordance with 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 be reportedly taking a stake in Friedman and Gross’ three way partnership agency, NFDG, which has invested in distinguished AI startups reminiscent of Perplexity and Character.AI.
Gross and Friedman might considerably beef up Meta’s AI superintelligence lab, including leaders who’ve expertise working and investing in AI analysis labs. Earlier this month, Meta introduced that Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and several other executives from the information labeling startup, would be part of the corporate as effectively.
