Ilya Sutskever's SSI declines acquisition offer and poaching attempt by Meta

Ilya Sutskever is one of the leading researchers in ML & AI! A man in high demand! 😊

According to his Google Scholar profile he has a lifetime citation count of 651,796 and published about 185 papers etc..

SSI stands for Safe Superintelligence Inc.

"Safe Superintelligence (SSI), which has become one of the most intriguing companies in AI, even though it is yet to launch a product, declined an acquisition offer from Meta (Facebook) earlier this year, CNBC reports. In April SSI raised $2 billion at a company valuation of $32 billion. ..."

Ilya Sustkever's SSI declines Meta acquisition offer - report - Globes "Meta also reportedly failed to recruit Sutzkever himself directly into its ranks but is poaching SSI cofounder and CEO Daniel Gross, "The Information" reports."