Mark Zuckerberg made abortive attempt to buy ex-OpenAI executive Ilya Sutskever's AI startup: Report
Meta
CEO
Mark Zuckerberg
's
$14.2 billion investment in Scale AI last week
, and roping in its CEO Alexandr Wang, appears to have been part of a larger game plan to build expertise in
artificial intelligence
(AI).
Days after Sam Altman accused Zuckerberg of trying to poach
OpenAI
's talent, reports have emerged that Meta has been out shopping for other startups, including
Ilya Sutskever
's $32 billion
Safe Superintelligence
, launched just a year ago.
Sources told news channel CNBC that Meta tried to acquire the startup founded by Sutskever, former chief scientist at OpenAI, earlier this year. However, Sutskever rebuffed the big tech giant's efforts.
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Subsequently, Zuckerberg started eyeing the chief executive of the startup, Daniel Gross.
Zuckerberg
is setting up a team of experts
to achieve so-called "artificial general intelligence" (AGI), or machines that can match or surpass human capabilities.
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The Meta chief's apparent plans to personally recruit around 50 people, including a new head of AI research for the AGI team, is driven partly by frustration over the performance and reception of Meta's latest large language model, Llama 4.
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Altman swiped at Zuckerberg in his brother's podcast, 'Uncapped', saying that Meta
tried to poach the company's AI talent
for its superintelligence team. Additionally, he said Meta
is not "great at innovation"
. The 'special thing' about OpenAI is that the company has built a culture that is good at 'repeatable' innovation, Altman noted.
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