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Meta Tried to Buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32B AI Startup—Now It Wants to Hire Its CEO:
- Meta attempts to acquire Safe Superintelligence, led by ex-OpenAI scientist Ilya Sutskever, valued at $32 billion, but the deal falls through.
- Meta now recruits Daniel Gross, CEO of Safe Superintelligence, and Nat Friedman, ex-GitHub CEO, to work on AI under Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.
- Gross and Friedman will also work on AI product development and Meta is acquiring an interest in their venture capital firm NFDG.
- Meta's aggressive AI talent acquisition strategy includes poaching top AI minds, with signing bonuses reportedly reaching up to $100 million.
- Meta aims to strengthen its AI efforts to compete with technology giants like Google and OpenAI in the race for advanced AI models and artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- OpenAI also makes strategic talent moves, including a $6.5 billion partnership with Jony Ive and acquiring his startup io.
- The competitive landscape for AI talent intensifies as companies like Google and Microsoft make significant acquisitions to bolster their AI capabilities.
- Daniel Gross, with prior experience at Apple and Y Combinator, and Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, join Meta to enhance its AI development.
- Meta continues its aggressive AI investment strategy, recently committing $14.3 billion in Scale AI and acquiring top engineers.
- Meta's focus on recruiting top AI talent highlights the importance of securing skilled individuals in the rapidly evolving AI industry.
- Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, pushes forward with ambitious AI initiatives, aiming to advance the company's position in the AI technology space.
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