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When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached The founder of the AI scale, Alexandr Wang, last week, as part of an investment of $ 14.3 billion in the startup of artificial intelligence, he apparently only started.
According to Startup Safelligence, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever, the startup Safelligence of several billion dollars, has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of the startup of Startup of Ilya Sutskever, and the former CEO of Github, Nat Friedman.
This is not how Zuckerberg has planned that an agreement will take place.
Earlier this year, sources said Meta tried to acquire a sure superintelligence, which was would have Valued at $ 32 billion during a fundraising round in April. Sutskever, who I just launched The startup a year ago, shortly after leaving Openai, rejected Meta’s efforts, as well as the company’s attempt to hire him, said the sources, which asked not to be named because the information is confidential.
Shortly after the end of these discussions, Zuckerberg began to negotiate with Gross, the sources said. In addition to his role at Safe Superintelligence, Gross leads a venture capital company with Friedman called Nfdgtheir initials combined.
The two men join Meta as part of the transaction and will work on products under Wang, said a source. Meta, meanwhile, will obtain participation in NFDG, according to several sources.
Information was the first to report on Meta’s plans to hire Gross and Friedman.
Gross, Friedman and Sutskever did not respond to CNBC comments.
A Meta spokesman said that the company “will share more on our superintendent efforts and that the grown-ups joining this team in the coming weeks”.
Zuckerberg’s aggressive hiring tactics are increasing a war of AI talents which has reached new peaks lately. Meta, Google And OpenAi, as well as a crowd of other large companies and high -value startups, rush to develop the most powerful large language models and push towards general artificial intelligence (AG), or AI considered as equal to or superior to human intelligence.
Last week, Meta agreed to pump $ 14.3 billion in an AI on a scale to bring Wang and some other high -level engineers while obtaining a 49% stake in the startup.
CEO of Openai Sam Altman said on the last episode of “Non -ceiling“Podcast, which is organized by her brother, that Meta tried to attract OpenAi employees by offering signature bonuses up to $ 100 million, with even more important annual remuneration packages. Altman said” none of our best people has decided to take them. “”
“I heard that Meta considers that we are their biggest competitor,” said Altman on the podcast. “Their current AI efforts did not work as well as they hoped and I respect aggressiveness and that I continue to try new things.”
Meta did not respond to a request for comments on Altman’s remarks.
Openai, for its part, went to similar durations, Pay approximately $ 6.5 billion To hire the designer of iPhone Jony IVE and acquire its start-up IO of emerging devices.
Elsewhere, the founders of the AI start -up character. recruited in Google last year in an agreement of several billion dollars, while the co-founder Deepmind Mustafa Suleyman was provoked by Microsoft In a purchase of $ 650 million in talent from the AI inflection.
In Gross, Zuckerberg obtains a longtime entrepreneur and an AI investor. Gross founded the search engine, which was acquired by Apple In 2013. He was an Apple senior manager and helped direct Automatic Learning and Siri development efforts. He was then associated with the Startup Y Combinator accelerator, before co-founding the safe superintendent alongside Sutskever.
Friedman co -founded two startups before becoming CEO of Github after Microsoft acquisition of the code sharing platform in 2018.
NFDG supported JammingFigma, CorePerplexity and character. Over the years, according to Pitchbook. We do not know what is happening to his investment portfolio in a meta agreement, said a source.
