Meta uses an aggressive approach to hiring new members of his Superintelligence Lab, the group that is responsible for developing AI that is more intelligent than people.
CNBC Reports that Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence (SSI) earlier this year, a top -ai startup appreciated at $ 32 billion. OpenAI founder Ilya Sutskever co -founded SSI in June 2024, a month after leaving his position as chief scientist at OpenAi. The startup go To follow a security-first approach for building super intelligence, or an AI with advanced options.
SUTSKEVER reportedly rejected Meta’s offer to buy SSI and refused the range of meta to hire it, sources told sources CNBC. Meta then started conversations for a possible deal with SSI’s CEO, Daniel Gross, and former Github CEO Nat Friedman. Gross and Friedman run a risk capital company together NFDGNamed after the combination of their initials.
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Now several sources tell CNBC That meta takes an interest in NFDG in exchange for Gross and Friedman who joins Meta as part of his Superintelligence Lab. The size of Meta’s investment in NFDG is unclear.
Gross and Friedman are said to work on AI products at Meta under another new rent: AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Cheek announced Last week he would leave AI scale for Meta as part of a $ 14.3 billion Investment meta made in the startup.
SSI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Photo by Jack Guez / AFP
The new employees will be said to be well compensated. By one Bloomberg Last week Meta reports to a wage of nine digits for researchers in his Superintelligence team. OpenAi CEO Sam Altman confirmed this week that Meta tried to recruit OpenAi researchers by offering $ 100 million signing bonuses and even higher compensation packages as lever.
According to BloombergMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally led the recruitment effort for the Superintelligence team. He has invited leading AI researchers and engineers from other companies to meet him at home in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe to talk about offers to become a member of Meta. The aim of Zuckerberg is that Meta is the first company that has reached Superintelligence, that it can then use its products with power, such as its AI Chatbot and AI Smart Glasses.
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The Meta movement to apply new talent, such as Wang, Gross and Friedman, arrives when the company tries to hold the existing AI talent. Menlo Ventures Venture Capitalist Doy Das Posted on X Last week that he had heard of three cases last week that Meta AI researchers lost to open OpenAi and anthropic, despite offering a fee of $ 2 million or more.
“The AI Talent Wars are absolutely ridiculous,” wrote Das.
Meta currently offers $ 2 million+/years in offers for AI Talent and still loses them to OpenAI and Anthropic. Heard ~ 3 such cases this week.
The AI Talent Wars are absolutely ridiculous.
Nowadays Anthropic has the highest retention of ~ 80% 2 years in and it is #1 (large) company top ai … pic.twitter.com/ysv5unv5H2
– Doy (@deedydas) June 10, 2025
Meta was supply 15% more than 15% Year-to-date at the time of writing.
Meta uses an aggressive approach to hiring new members of his Superintelligence Lab, the group that is responsible for developing AI that is more intelligent than people.
CNBC Reports that Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence (SSI) earlier this year, a top -ai startup appreciated at $ 32 billion. OpenAI founder Ilya Sutskever co -founded SSI in June 2024, a month after leaving his position as chief scientist at OpenAi. The startup go To follow a security-first approach for building super intelligence, or an AI with advanced options.
SUTSKEVER reportedly rejected Meta’s offer to buy SSI and refused the range of meta to hire it, sources told sources CNBC. Meta then started conversations for a possible deal with SSI’s CEO, Daniel Gross, and former Github CEO Nat Friedman. Gross and Friedman run a risk capital company together NFDGNamed after the combination of their initials.
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