After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO

Group 1 - Meta is actively pursuing AI talent, attempting to acquire Safe Superintelligence, a $32 billion AI startup co-founded by Ilya Sutskever [1] - Although Sutskever declined the acquisition, Meta is in discussions to hire Safe Superintelligence's CEO, Daniel Gross, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman [2] - The addition of Gross and Friedman could enhance Meta's AI superintelligence lab, leveraging their experience in AI research and investment [3] Group 2 - Meta is also reportedly investing in Friedman and Gross's joint venture firm, NFDG, which has backed notable AI startups like Perplexity and Character.AI [2] - Earlier this month, Meta announced the hiring of Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and several executives from a data labeling startup [3]