
Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence
Alex Heath
created: June 20, 2025, 10:53 p.m. | updated: June 22, 2025, 11:48 p.m.
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, the AI-native Google rival.
Both men will report to Alexandr Wang, the former Scale CEO Zuckerberg just paid over $14 billion to quickly hire.
The Information and CNBC first reported Zuckerberg’s talks with Safe Superintelligence, while Bloomberg first reported the Perplexity talks.
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