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Daniel Gross
Lately: Meta as AI Products Lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs, from Safe Superintelligence Inc..
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Daniel Gross → Meta as AI Products Lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs, from Safe Superintelligence Inc. (Chief Executive Officer)
Gave Meta a proven product leader with Apple and founder-scale credibility, and forced a leadership change at a rival lab in the same week.
Daniel Gross → Safe Superintelligence Inc. as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, from Apple (Head of AI Efforts)
Marked Apple's earliest senior AI departure of the period, more than a year before its 2025 losses to Meta.
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Hiring & Talent
The Biggest AI Hires of 2025
Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.
Hiring & Talent
Meta Superintelligence Labs: The Raid and the Reckoning
Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman and Shengjia Zhao built Meta's superintelligence unit in a single summer of nine-figure offers and then spent a year restructuring around the researchers who stayed.
Hiring & Talent
The Founder-Scientist Labs
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence and a cluster of scientist-led startups command double-digit-billion valuations before shipping a product, yet the same compensation war rattling Big Tech now shakes their founding teams too.