Overview

• Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former OpenAI chief scientist, replaces Daniel Gross as CEO of Safe Superintelligence with co-founder Daniel Levy elevated to president.
• Sutskever pledged to maintain SSI’s autonomy after turning down Meta’s proposal to acquire the company and recruit its top talent.
• Daniel Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its newly formed AI products division.
• Meta has operationalized Meta Superintelligence Labs under former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman.
• SSI continues its mission to develop safe superintelligence backed by a $1 billion funding round and a reported $32 billion valuation.