Nigeria, June 20 -- Meta's AI ambitions are full speed ahead. Following the offer to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI firm established by now-former OpenAI researcher Ilya Sutskever, Mark Zuckerberg has his sights on its geniuses.

Earlier this year, Meta made a bold move to buy Safe Superintelligence, the stealth-mode startup that has rapidly emerged as among the most valuable participants in the AI space. However, sources close to the matter revealed that Sutskever rejected both an offer of acquisition and an individual attempt at hiring and declined significant incentives.

Refusing to back down, Zuckerberg set his sights on Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The two tech veter...