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

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 06/20/2025 18:53 EDT

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

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, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal […]

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