Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross  —  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year.



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