Meta continues to transfer leading names in the industry to strengthen its claim in the field of artificial intelligence. The company has added SSI CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman to its staff. Both names will take on Meta’s AI projects under the new structure created by the transfer of Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.
Meta strengthens its AI team
Meta made a purchase offer for Safe Superintelligence in the first quarter of the year. The offer, valued at approximately $32 billion, was rejected by the company’s founder Sutskever. The company then tried to directly transfer Sutskever, but this attempt did not work either.
In the face of this situation, Meta turned to Sutskever’s close colleagues. SSI CEO Daniel Gross and his partner Nat Friedman agreed to join Meta. As part of the deal, a share was also acquired from the investment company NFDG founded by the duo.
Daniel Gross is the founder of Cue, a personal search engine that was sold to Apple. After leading the Siri and machine learning teams at Apple, he became an investor at Y Combinator. He then founded Safe Superintelligence with Sutskever.
Nat Friedman served as CEO of the company after GitHub was sold to Microsoft and later founded NFDG with Gross. These two names will now be part of the special team Meta has created for its superintelligence goal.
In a statement made by Meta, it was stated that the company will provide more information about this new structure and its goals in the field of superintelligence in the coming weeks. The company is creating a roadmap that aims to go beyond the concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI), that is, to develop systems that surpass human intelligence.
