Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., is joining Meta Platforms Inc.’s new superintelligence lab focused on AI.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has reportedly poached one of Apple’s top artificial intelligence researchers as part of its ongoing hiring spree.

Daniel Gross, former CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc., has joined Meta Platforms’ superintelligence lab, enhancing its AI talent pool. His departure follows a restructuring at SSI, with co-founder Ilya Sutskever stepping in as CEO.

Ilya Sutskever will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI.

Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after losing CEO Daniel Gross to an intensifying talent war in the industry.

Until last week, Gross (pictured) was chief executive of Safe Superintelligence Inc., a well-funded AI startup. He co-founded the company last year with former OpenAI researchers Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy. Sutskever revealed Gross’ departure in a post on X today.

With Daniel Gross joining Meta, Ilya Sutskever assumes leadership of SSI and reaffirms the company’s mission to build safe superintelligence.

Daniel Gross, former CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc., has joined Meta Platforms' new AI lab, following his recent departure from the AI startup.

Safe Superintelligence CEO Ilya Sutskever reaffirms focus on developing safe superintelligence as Meta aggressively hires top AI talent from rivals including OpenAI and Scale AI.