{"id":218,"date":"2025-06-20T21:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:09:18","slug":"after-trying-to-buy-ilya-sutskevers-32b-ai-startup-meta-looks-to-hire-its-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218\/","title":{"rendered":"After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI\u2019s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/19\/meta-tried-to-buy-safe-superintelligence-hired-ceo-daniel-gross.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CNBC<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sutskever ultimately turned Meta down, according to CNBC, but the company is now in talks to hire Safe Superintelligence\u2019s co-founder and CEO, Daniel Gross. Earlier this week, The Information reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/meta-talks-hire-former-github-ceo-nat-friedman-daniel-gross-join-ai-efforts?rc=dp0mql\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Meta was in talks to hire Gross<\/a>, as well as former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Meta is also reportedly taking a stake in Friedman and Gross\u2019 joint venture firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/nfdg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NFDG<\/a>, which has invested in prominent AI startups such as Perplexity and Character.AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gross and Friedman could significantly beef up Meta\u2019s AI superintelligence lab, adding leaders who have experience running and investing in AI research labs. Earlier this month, Meta announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/13\/scale-ai-confirms-significant-investment-from-meta-says-ceo-alexandr-wang-is-leaving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang<\/a>, and several executives from the data labeling startup, would join the company as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,339,340,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-in-brief","10":"tag-meta","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114717744442484552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}