Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

At this point, it's becoming easier to accidental which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn't looked astatine acquiring.

In summation to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources archer maine the Meta CEO precocious discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the ceremonial connection signifier for assorted reasons, including disagreements implicit woody prices and strategy, but unneurotic they exemplify however aggressively Zuckerberg has been canvassing the industry to reboot his AI efforts.

Now, details astir the squad Zuckerberg is assembling are starting to travel into view: SSI co-founder and CEO Daniel Gross, on with ex-Github CEO Nat Friedman, are poised to co-lead the Meta AI assistant. Both men volition study to Alexandr Wang, the erstwhile Scale CEO Zuckerberg just paid implicit $14 cardinal to rapidly hire. Wang told his Scale squad goodbye past Friday and was successful the Meta bureau connected Monday. This week, helium has been gathering with apical Meta leaders (more connected that below) and continuing to enlistee for the caller AI squad Zuckerberg has tasked him with building. I expect the squad to beryllium unveiled arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week.

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