Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company’s AI team, according to sources.

Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman to push AI - report Jun. 20, 2025 2:38 AM ET Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Stock, META:CA Stock By: Manshi Mamtora, CFA 2 ...

Founded on June 19, 2024, SSI was launched by Ilya Sutskever, former co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, and Daniel Gross, ex- Apple Inc. AI director. Gross currently serves as SSI’s CEO.

Prior to co-founding SSI, Gross was a tech investor with former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Friedman has also been hired by Meta and is co-leading the superintelligence lab with former Scale AI CEO ...

The social media giant is also in discussion with Daniel Gross, Friedman's partner in the investment fund NFDG, about joining the company to work on AI, the report added. Meta did not immediately ...