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Indian Express
5 hours ago
- Business
- Indian Express
Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent war
Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after losing CEO Daniel Gross to an intensifying talent war in the industry. Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its AI products division, sources told Reuters. The development comes as tech giants such as Meta Platforms aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to lead the next wave of artificial intelligence. Meta had also attempted to recruit Sutskever and acquire SSI, which was most recently valued at $32 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. 'You might have heard rumors of companies looking to acquire us. We are flattered by their attention but are focused on seeing our work through,' Sutskever said in a post on X. SSI raised $1 billion in cash last year to build advanced AI systems designed to safely exceed human intelligence. Sutskever has previously served as OpenAI's chief scientist. He left the ChatGPT maker, which he co-founded, after his involvement in Sam Altman's dramatic firing and rehiring in November 2023. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to unify the company's AI efforts, following setbacks with its Llama 4 model and key staff departures. The unit will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale and ramped up efforts to recruit top AI talent. Gross and Friedman are known to be close, having co-founded the venture capital firm NFDG — named after their initials. The firm has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma. Meta has offered to buy a minority stake in NFDG's funds from limited partners through a tender offer, the sources told Reuters. The Facebook owner did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while NFDG could not be reached. Apple acquired Gross's startup, Cue, in 2013 for its predictive search and AI technology, after which Gross joined the iPhone maker as a director, overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The Hindu
6 hours ago
- Business
- The Hindu
Ilya Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent war
Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after losing CEO Daniel Gross to an intensifying talent war in the industry. Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its AI products division, sources told Reuters. The development comes as tech giants such as Meta Platforms aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to lead the next wave of artificial intelligence. Meta had also attempted to recruit Sutskever and acquire SSI, which was most recently valued at $32 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. "You might have heard rumors of companies looking to acquire us. We are flattered by their attention but are focused on seeing our work through," Sutskever said in a post on X. SSI raised $1 billion in cash last year to build advanced AI systems designed to safely exceed human intelligence. Sutskever has previously served as OpenAI's chief scientist. He left the ChatGPT maker, which he co-founded, after his involvement in Sam Altman's dramatic firing and rehiring in November 2023. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to unify the company's AI efforts, following setbacks with its Llama 4 model and key staff departures. The unit will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale and ramped up efforts to recruit top AI talent. Gross and Friedman are known to be close, having co-founded the venture capital firm NFDG — named after their initials. The firm has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma. Apple acquired Gross's startup, Cue, in 2013 for its predictive search and AI technology, after which Gross joined the iPhone maker as a director, overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The Star
10 hours ago
- Business
- The Star
Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent war
Ilya Sutskever, co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI speaks during a talk at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo (Reuters) -Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after losing CEO Daniel Gross to an intensifying talent war in the industry. Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its AI products division, sources told Reuters. The development comes as tech giants such as Meta Platforms aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to lead the next wave of artificial intelligence. Meta had also attempted to recruit Ilya Sutskever and acquire SSI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. "You might have heard rumors of companies looking to acquire us. We are flattered by their attention but are focused on seeing our work through," Sutskever said in a post on X. SSI raised $1 billion in cash last year to build advanced AI systems designed to safely exceed human intelligence. Gross did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to unify the company's AI efforts, following setbacks with its Llama 4 model and key staff departures. The unit will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale and ramped up efforts to recruit top AI talent. Gross and Friedman are known to be close, having co-founded the venture capital firm NFDG — named after their initials. The firm has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma. Apple acquired Gross's startup, Cue, in 2013 for its predictive search and AI technology, after which Gross joined the iPhone maker as a director, overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru and Krystal Hu in New York; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
Economic Times
13 hours ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent war
Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after losing CEO Daniel Gross to an intensifying talent war in the industry. Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its AI products division, sources told Reuters. The development comes as tech giants such as Meta Platforms aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to lead the next wave of artificial intelligence. Meta had also attempted to recruit Ilya Sutskever and acquire SSI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. "You might have heard rumors of companies looking to acquire us. We are flattered by their attention but are focused on seeing our work through," Sutskever said in a post on X. SSI raised $1 billion in cash last year to build advanced AI systems designed to safely exceed human intelligence. Gross did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to unify the company's AI efforts, following setbacks with its Llama 4 model and key staff departures. The unit will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale and ramped up efforts to recruit top AI talent. Gross and Friedman are known to be close, having cofounded the venture capital firm NFDG - named after their initials. The firm has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma. Apple acquired Gross's startup, Cue, in 2013 for its predictive search and AI technology, after which Gross joined the iPhone maker as a director, overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence.
India Today
2 days ago
- Business
- India Today
Rs 800 crore joining bonus? Once in Accenture, IITian Trapit Bansal has joined Meta AI superintelligence team
Former OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal has officially joined Meta Superintelligence Labs. The superintelligence team is part of Meta's efforts to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) and compete with the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Bansal, a graduate of IIT Kanpur, holds dual degrees in mathematics and statistics and later earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specialising in meta-learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. His career trajectory includes a mix of academic rigour and hands-on experience at the world's biggest tech companies. advertisementBansal's career started in 2012 with a stint as an analyst at Accenture Management Consulting in Gurugram. He then spent over two years at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore as a research assistant, focusing on Bayesian modelling and inference the years, he interned at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI in roles involving deep learning for natural language processing, knowledge graphs, and reinforcement learning. At UMass Amherst, he also served as a graduate research assistant, where he delved into deep learning for NLP. In 2022, Bansal joined OpenAI full-time as a member of technical staff. There, he worked alongside co-founder Ilya Sutskever on reinforcement learning (RL) for reasoning, co-creating the organisation's first AI reasoning model, o1. His contributions are widely seen as foundational to the development of ChatGPT's internal reasoning new home, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), was formally launched by Mark Zuckerberg on Monday. The division is tasked with developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), and is being co-led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, Meta is aggressively hiring elite AI researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, sometimes offering pay packages worth up to $300 million over four years. While the specifics of Bansal's deal remain unclear, reports speculate his offer could include stock-based compensation and massive compute scale of these offers has caused tension in the industry. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said Meta attempted to lure his staff with "$100 million signing bonuses," although he claimed "none of our best people" had accepted. But Bansal's exit, along with at least three others from OpenAI's team, suggests otherwise. Other researchers who have reportedly joined Meta include Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jack Rae, and Johan Meta currently lacking a publicly available AI reasoning model, Bansal's appointment could help expedite the development of it. His expertise in building systems that can learn, reason, and plan is expected to shape Meta's next-generation LLMs and possibly rival OpenAI's o3 or DeepSeek's Meta spokesperson Andy Stone has downplayed claims of exaggerated salaries, insiders believe Bansal's hiring is part of a broader strategy to fast-track AGI research. - Ends
