Overview

• Meta’s proposal to buy Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence for $32 billion fell through when he rebuffed the offer earlier this year.
• As part of the recruitment deal, Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman will join Meta’s superintelligence team under Alexandr Wang and Meta will gain a stake in their venture firm NFDG.
• Last week’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI secured Meta a 49 percent stake and added Wang and other engineers to its AI ranks.
• The hires intensify Meta’s competition with Google and OpenAI in a high-stakes race toward artificial general intelligence.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta’s offers of signing bonuses up to $100 million have not persuaded any of his top engineers to defect.