Daniel Gross, the previous chief govt and co-founder of Protected Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), has joined Meta Platforms’ newly fashioned superintelligence lab, marking one other vital transfer within the ongoing AI expertise warfare.
Gross is ready to work on synthetic intelligence merchandise below Meta’s superintelligence unit, his spokesperson Lulu Meservey confirmed. The event follows Meta’s latest restructuring of its AI division and a flurry of high-profile hires aimed toward pushing the boundaries of synthetic basic intelligence (AGI), AI techniques able to human-level or superior cognition.
Ilya Sutskever, Gross’s co-founder at SSI and the previous chief scientist at OpenAI, introduced on Friday that Gross had stepped down from his function on the AI startup. Sutskever will now assume the place of CEO at SSI. Whereas Gross avoided mentioning Meta immediately in his farewell put up on X, he wrote, “The corporate’s future may be very brilliant, and I anticipate miracles to comply with.”
Gross’s departure from SSI comes simply months after the stealth-mode startup was launched with a focus on constructing secure and aligned superintelligence. His transfer to Meta is seen as a part of a wider recruitment technique personally spearheaded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Reviews recommend that Zuckerberg has been actively courting main AI minds, even inviting potential hires to his residences in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.
Gross isn’t the one distinguished determine to have joined Meta’s superintelligence efforts. Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO and Gross’s long-time collaborator in enterprise capital agency NFDG, has additionally signed on. He now co-leads Meta’s superintelligence initiative alongside former Scale AI chief govt Alexandr Wang.
The Wall Street Journal beforehand reported that Meta has supplied to amass a minority stake in NFDG’s funds, a enterprise agency co-founded by Gross and Friedman, doubtlessly deepening the partnership.
Gross’s profession spans quite a lot of roles throughout Silicon Valley’s tech panorama. He co-founded Cue, an AI-powered search startup that was acquired by Apple in 2013. Following the acquisition, he labored on Apple’s AI and search initiatives till 2017, and later served as a associate at startup accelerator Y Combinator.
(With inputs from Bloomberg)
