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Nvidia is investing about $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence (SSI) to access Nvidia’s Vera Rubin hardware, enabling SSI to roughly tenfold its computing power over the next year under milestone-based terms; SSI remains secretive with no product yet, as the deal deepens Nvidia’s ties to a high-profile AI venture amid similar large investments in the sector.
Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, has been actively exploring acquisitions in the AI sector, including discussions to buy startups like Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence, although none of these deals have advanced to formal offers. Zuckerberg is also assembling a new AI team, with notable hires such as Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, to bolster Meta's AI efforts amid a competitive landscape involving other tech giants.
Meta attempted to acquire the $32 billion AI startup Safe Superintelligence co-founded by Ilya Sutskever but was declined, and is now in talks to hire its CEO, Daniel Gross, along with other AI industry leaders to strengthen its AI research capabilities.
Meta's attempt to acquire the $32 billion AI startup Safe Superintelligence was rejected by co-founder Ilya Sutskever, leading the company to instead focus on poaching top AI talent like Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman to bolster its push into superintelligence, highlighting the intense competition in AI development.