Overview

• Meta agreed to invest $14.3 billion for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI, securing founder Alexandr Wang and key engineers for its AI division.
• Meta’s talks to buy Perplexity AI and Safe Superintelligence collapsed, but it hired Daniel Gross from the latter and brought on former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
• Gross and Friedman will work under Wang and Meta will acquire a stake in their NFDG venture capital firm.
• Meta has dangled signing bonuses up to $100 million to poach OpenAI researchers, but OpenAI has countered offers to retain its top talent.
• These steps feed into Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to assemble a superintelligence group focused on advancing AI models beyond human capabilities.