Goal Approached artificial Intellignce startup Perplexity AI Butte a potentially takeover bid before he eventually invests $ 14.3 billion in scale AI, CNBC confirms on Friday.
The two companies did not end, according to two people who are familiar with the issue that are not mentioned because of the confidential nature of the negoties.
A family person with the conversations said that it was “mutually resolved”, while another family person said with the case that perplexity ran away from a potential deal.
Bloomberg previously reported the conversations between meta and perplexity. Perplexity decided to comment. Doel did not respond to CNBC’s request for comments.
Meta’s attempt to buy PerTlexity serves as the latest example of Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive push to bolt the AI efforts of his company in the midst of fierce competition from OpenAI and Google Parent Alphabet. Zuckerberg is agitated that rivals such as OpenAI seem to be for us in both underlying AI models and consumer-oriented apps, and it goes extreme length to hire top AI talent, such as CNBC that you have previously reported.
Meta Now you have a 49% interest on a scale after the investment of millions of dollars, although the social media company will not have any votes. Scale AI’s founder Alexandr Wang, together with a small number of other scale employees, will participate in Meta as part of the agreement.
Earlier this year, the goal also tried to acquire safe super intelligence, which was reported in April at $ 32 billion in a fundraising round, as CNBC reported on Thursday.
Daniel Gross, the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, and former Github CEO Nat Friedman participate in the AI efforts of Meta, where they will be produced on products under cheek. Gross RNS RNS A risk capital company with Friedman named NFDG, their combined initials and Meta gets an interest in the company.
OpenAi CEO Sam Altman said in the latest episode of the Podcast “Uncapt”, which is organized by his brother, who had tried Meta to poach OpenAi -employees by offering meaning bonuses as $ 100 million with the same
“I heard that Meta regards us as their biggest competitor,” Altman said on the podcast. “Their current AI efforts did not work as well as they have hoped and I respect aggragsive and continuously to try new things.”
-Cnbc’s Kate Rooney contributes to this report
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