has snared another employee. This time it's Daniel Gross, CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI). SSI was launched last year by OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever.

It appears Meta is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to talent even remotely connected to OpenAI. Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its AI products division, according to Reuters.

This development comes as tech giants have been throwing money to secure top talent and make high-profile acquisitions to stay ahead in the AI game.

Prior to this, CNBC had reported that the Mark Zuckerberg-led company had tried to recruit Sutskever and acquire SSI. But to the disappointment of the tech giant, Sutskever refused to give in.

In his post about Gross’s departure from the company, Sutskever also addressed the reports: “⁠You might have heard rumors of companies looking to acquire us. We are flattered by their attention but are focused on seeing our work through.”

“We have the compute, we have the team, and we know what to do. Together we will keep building safe superintelligence,” he added.

This talent poaching follows a previous instance reported a few days ago, when Meta hired four artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI, which itself followed the recruitment of another group of researchers from OpenAI’s Zurich office.

Back then, OpenAI’s chief research officer, Mark Chen, told employees, “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,”

Before the wave of departures hit, OpenAI’s CEO had already spoken out, revealing that Zuckerberg was dangling bonuses of up to $100 million to lure his talent away.

"At least, so far, none of our best people have decided to take them up on that," Altman had said. Those words didn't age well, as the subsequent talent exodus went on to proove.