Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

  • Meta recently tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup launched by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, according to sources familiar with the matter. When Sutskever rebuffed the offer, Mark Zuckerberg moved to recruit the startup's CEO and co-founder Daniel Gross instead.