Meta Platforms(US:META) Feng Huang Wang·2025-06-20 00:55Group 1 - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a significant investment of $14.3 billion in AI startup Scale AI, aiming to recruit its founder Alexandr Wang and other top engineers [1][4] - Following negotiations with Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, who declined Meta's acquisition offer, Zuckerberg shifted focus to Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman [1][2] - Meta plans to integrate Gross and Friedman into its team, where they will work under Wang's leadership on product development, while also investing in their venture capital firm NFDG [2] Group 2 - The competition for AI talent has intensified, with major companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI vying to develop advanced language models and achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) [4] - OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman revealed that Meta attempted to lure OpenAI employees with signing bonuses of up to $100 million, but their top talent did not accept the offers [4] - Other companies, such as Google and Microsoft, are also actively acquiring AI talent, with Google bringing back founders from Character.AI and Microsoft acquiring the talent team from Inflection AI for $650 million [5]