Met approached a perplexity before a large scale AI deal

Meta approach artificial intelligence Launch perplexity for a potential bid for absorption before ultimately investing $ 14.3 billion in Scales toCNBC confirmed on Friday.

The two companies did not finalize a deal, according to two people familiar with the question, who asked not to be indicated due to the confidential nature of the negotiations.

One person familiar with the conversations said he was “mutually dissolved”, while another person familiar with the question said that the bewilderment was moving away from a potential deal.

Bloomberg He reported earlier the conversations between Meta and the bewilderment. The bewilderment declined to comment. Meta did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

Meta’s attempt to buy bewilderment serves as the worst example of Mark Zuckerbergthe aggressive impetus of his company Ai Efforts against the background of fierce competition from Openai and Google Parent AlphabetS Zuckerberg is excited that rivals like Openai seem to be forward in both the main AI models and users’ applications, and it will exclude end lengths to hire the best AI talents, as CNBC reported earlier.

Meta now has a 49% share in Scale After its multidimensional investment, although the social media company will have no power of voting. The founder of scale AI Alexander WangTogether with a small number of other scale employees, they will join Meta as part of the agreement.

Earlier this year Meta also tried to get a safe supervision that was According to messages $ 32 billion in a fund raising round in April, as CNBC reported on Thursday.

Daniel Gross, CEO of Safe Superintelligence, and former CEO of GitHub Nat Friedman, join Meta’s AI efforts, where they will work on products under Wang. Gross manages a venture capital company with a Friedman called NfdgTheir combined initials and meta will receive a stake in the company.

Openai Executive Director Sam Altman said in the last episode of The “Unsupported“A podcast who hosts his brother that Meta has had I tried to poach Openai employees by offering signing bonuses up to $ 100 million with even more annual compensation packages.

“I heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor,” Altman said in a podcast. “Their current efforts of II have not worked as well as they hoped, and I respect that I am aggressive and continue to try new things.”

-Cate Rooney of CNBC contributed to this report

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