Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has restructured the company's AI efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, explicitly focused on building AI superintelligence. The division will be led by former Scale AI...
Meta has hired eight researchers from OpenAI in recent weeks, including four new hires: Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren. This aggressive talent acquisition follows the disappointing performance of Me...
OpenAI has hired the team behind Crossing Minds, an AI recommendation startup that provided personalization systems to e-commerce businesses and had raised over $13.5 million. The acquisition brings expertise in AI-drive...
Meta is reportedly in talks to acquire Play AI, a voice cloning startup that has raised $23.5 million and allows users to clone voices for AI applications like customer service. The acquisition would enable Meta to integ...
Meta has hired Trapit Bansal, a key OpenAI researcher who helped develop the o1 reasoning model and worked on reinforcement learning with co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Bansal joins Meta's AI superintelligence unit alongside...
Meta has successfully recruited three OpenAI researchers - Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai - to join its superintelligence team, as part of Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive hiring campaign offering $100+...
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, announced the creation of Laude Institute with a $100 million personal pledge to fund independent AI research. The institute will operate as a hybrid nonprofit/for...
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has secured a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation just six months after launch. The startup's specific focus remains undisclosed, but it has a...
OpenAI has secured a $200 million deal with the U.S. Department of Defense, potentially straining its relationship with Microsoft. The deal reflects Silicon Valley's growing military partnerships and calls for an AI "arm...
Meta unsuccessfully attempted to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The company is now in talks to hire the startup's CEO Daniel Gross a...
