Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

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At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring.
In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity,…

This story appeared on theverge.com, 2025-06-21 05:52:19.578000.
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