Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said helium volition presume the CEO relation at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup helium launched past year.

Sutskever's announcement connected Thursday comes aft Meta poached Daniel Gross, a longtime entrepreneur and AI capitalist who had been CEO of Safe Superintelligence.

In a post connected X, Sutskever said Gross' clip astatine the institution has been "winding down," and that his past time was June 29. Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Levy volition present service arsenic president, and the company's method squad volition proceed to study to Sutskever, helium said.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been connected a multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree, highlighted by a $14 cardinal concern successful Scale AI that brought the startup's laminitis Alexandr Wang and a tiny radical of his pb engineers to Meta.

Zuckerberg announced a caller organization connected Monday called Meta Superintelligence Labs that's made up of apical AI researchers and engineers. However, Gross' sanction was not listed among the caller hires mentioned by Zuckerberg.

Gross did not respond to CNBC's petition for comment.

During Zuckerberg's AI hiring blitz, Meta tried to get Safe Superintelligence, but Sutskever rebuffed those efforts, CNBC antecedently reported. Safe Superintelligence was reportedly valued astatine $32 cardinal successful a fundraising circular successful April.

Sutskever confirmed his plans connected Thursday to support moving the institution arsenic an autarkic organization.

"⁠You mightiness person heard rumors of companies looking to get us. We are flattered by their attraction but are focused connected seeing our enactment through," Sutskever wrote. "We person the compute, we person the team, and we cognize what to do. Together we volition support gathering harmless superintelligence."

Sutskever antecedently served arsenic OpenAI's main idiosyncratic and co-led the company's Superalignment squad with Jan Leike, who near to articulation rival AI steadfast Anthropic.

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