{"id":52943,"date":"2025-06-20T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=52943"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:27:12","slug":"meta-tried-to-acquire-ilya-sutskevers-ssi-but-was-rebuffed-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/meta-tried-to-acquire-ilya-sutskevers-ssi-but-was-rebuffed-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Tried To Acquire Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s SSI But Was Rebuffed: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s new venture, SSI, has been operating silently in the shadows with a singular goal of reaching superintelligence, but it&#8217;s having to navigate some corporate action along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta had tried to acquire Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s startup Safe Supterintelligence (SSI), CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/19\/meta-tried-to-buy-safe-superintelligence-hired-ceo-daniel-gross.html\">reports<\/a>. Meta tried to push for the deal earlier this year. SSI, which had been valued at $32 billion in a fundraising round in April, reportedly turned Meta down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MixCollage-20-Jun-2025-09-46-PM-9793-1024x538.jpg?resize=640%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MixCollage-20-Jun-2025-09-46-PM-9793.jpg?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MixCollage-20-Jun-2025-09-46-PM-9793.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MixCollage-20-Jun-2025-09-46-PM-9793.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MixCollage-20-Jun-2025-09-46-PM-9793.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But it turns out that Meta wasn&#8217;t done when its offer for an acquisition was refused. CNBC reports that Meta is now looking to hire SSI co-founder Daniel Gross, who is the company&#8217;s CECO, and also hire former Github CEO Nat Fridman. Gross and Friedman together run a venture firm called NFDG, their combined initials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Gross isn&#8217;t the only high-profile figure in AI that Meta has been looking to hire in recent months. Meta has just hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its superintelligence efforts, and acquired a stake in Scale AI for $14 billion. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has claimed that Meta is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/meta-paying-100-million-bonuses-to-try-poach-our-talent-openai-ceo-sam-altman\/\">looking <\/a>to woo top AI talent with bonuses of as much as $100 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This frenetic activity appears to have been prompted by Meta&#8217;s recent struggles in the AI race. A while ago, Meta had come up with some capable Llama models, which had been differentiated because unlike other top companies, Meta had made them open-source. These models had become quite popular, and had been widely used by the developer community. But Meta has failed to come up with a stable reasoning model, which has meant that its models now lag <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/google-releases-thinking-gemini-2-5-pro-model-tops-most-benchmarks\/\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-explains-how-ai-can-be-a-risk-for-democracy\/\">Anthropic <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/is-openais-o3-model-agi-internet-users-speculate\/\">OpenAI&#8217;s <\/a>offerings by a wide margin. To make matters worse, China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/chinas-deepseek-updates-r1-model-shows-benchmarks-comparable-to-google-and-openais-top-models\/\">DeepSeek <\/a>has come  out with some very capable models that are not only better than those dished out by Meta, but have an even more accessible open-source license. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSI, for its part, has been remarkably quiet about its efforts and progress. When Sutskever had <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/startups\/sam-altman-is-unsure-if-ilya-sutskever-is-still-working-at-openai\/\">left <\/a>OpenAI under dramatic circumstances after reportedly leading a failed coup against CEO Sam Altman, he&#8217;d announced <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/startups\/former-openai-ctos-new-ai-startup-raises-1-billion-has-only-10-employees\/\">SSI<\/a>, a new startup that would be a one-shot approach to superintelligence. The company hasn&#8217;t yet made any announcements or released any products, but has seen its valuation zoom to $32 billion. And with it refusing a presumably generous offer from Meta, it does appear that Ilya Sutskever and SSI believe that they&#8217;re on the path towards creating something extremely valuable in the AI space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s new venture, SSI, has been operating silently in the shadows with a singular goal of reaching superintelligence,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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