Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company's AI team, according to sources.

The magnitude of Meta’s investment in Scale may seem like command of the AI race, but the company’s playing catchup

Sam Altman said so far none of his "best people" had jumped ship to his big tech rival.

Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company's AI team, according to sources.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to acquire Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, but failed, so now he's in talks to hire its CEO, Daniel Gross.

Meta recently invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI and tried to buy another startup called Safe Superintelligence, as CNBC previously reported.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a two-week spending binge, hiring the priciest AI developers in an effort to make up for past setbacks.