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Ilya Sutskever Named CEO of Safe Superintelligence After Meta Hires Daniel Gross

The leadership change reaffirms the startup’s independence following Meta’s rejected acquisition bid

Overview

  • Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former OpenAI chief scientist, replaces Daniel Gross as CEO of Safe Superintelligence with co-founder Daniel Levy elevated to president.
  • Sutskever pledged to maintain SSI’s autonomy after turning down Meta’s proposal to acquire the company and recruit its top talent.
  • Daniel Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its newly formed AI products division.
  • Meta has operationalized Meta Superintelligence Labs under former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman.
  • SSI continues its mission to develop safe superintelligence backed by a $1 billion funding round and a reported $32 billion valuation.