Zuckerberg Bolsters Metas Team with Talent from SSI and Other Firms

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been making efforts to recruit talented professionals not only from OpenAI but also from Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.

According to CNBC, which cites sources close to the matter, SSI was indeed on Zuckerberg’s acquisition radar. In April, SSI was valued at $32 billion.

Sutskever declined both Meta’s acquisition offer and a personal proposal from Zuckerberg, as reported by CNBC. Following this, Zuckerberg reached out to Daniel Gross, the CEO and co-founder of SSI, as well as to Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub.

Both Gross and Friedman are set to join Meta and collaborate with Scale AI founder Alexander Wang, whom Zuckerberg brought on board along with several other engineers for an estimated $15 billion. Meta now holds a 49% stake in the company.

A Meta representative informed CNBC that the company plans to disclose further details about its superintelligence initiative and its new team members in the upcoming weeks.

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