Group 1 - Safe Superintelligence (SSI) announced personnel changes, with co-founder Daniel Gross leaving and Ilia Sutskever taking over as CEO [2] - Daniel Levy has been promoted to president of SSI following Gross's departure [2] - Gross has joined Meta as the head of the AI product division [2] Group 2 - SSI's valuation reached $32 billion after a funding round in April 2025, with investments from Alphabet and Nvidia [4] - Sutskever emphasized the need for a new research direction in safe superintelligence, diverging from his previous work at OpenAI [4] - Sutskever noted the limitations of data availability, stating, "We have reached the limits of data. After all, there is only one internet" [4] Group 3 - Meta is undergoing a significant AI recruitment drive, investing $14 billion in Scale AI to attract top talent [5] - The company has faced challenges, losing 11 of the original authors of the Llama research paper, which has exacerbated its technical difficulties [5] - Meta's investment strategy includes acquiring 49% of Scale AI to bring in its founder, Alexandr Wang, as a lab leader [5] Group 4 - The competition for talent between Meta and OpenAI has intensified, with OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman accusing Meta of offering large salaries to lure developers [6] - Meta's recruitment efforts include targeting reasoning experts to address its technical shortcomings [7] - An internal memo from OpenAI revealed concerns about the competitive landscape, indicating a sense of urgency in adjusting compensation strategies [7]