{"id":940705,"date":"2025-06-23T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940705"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:37:34","slug":"not-just-co-founders-company-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-also-wanted-to-buy-another-ex-openai-employees-ai-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/23\/not-just-co-founders-company-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-also-wanted-to-buy-another-ex-openai-employees-ai-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just co-founder\u2019s company, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also wanted to buy another ex-OpenAI employee&#8217;s AI startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly explored acquiring several prominent artificial intelligence (AI) startups to accelerate the company&#8217;s development in the field. According to recent reports, Meta held preliminary discussions to purchase Perplexity, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the new venture from former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. It has also been claimed that Zuckerberg showed interest in buying Thinking Machines Lab, a startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.<\/p>\n<p>Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Verge said that the talks did not advance to the formal offer stage due to disagreements over valuation and strategic alignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly explored acquiring several prominent artificial intelligence (AI) startups to accelerate the company&#8217;s development in the field. According to recent reports, Meta held preliminary discussions to purchase Perplexity, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the new venture from former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. It has also been claimed that Zuckerberg showed interest in buying Thinking Machines Lab, a startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Verge said that the talks did not advance to the formal offer stage due to disagreements over valuation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}