Semafor Scoop: Meta Lets Go of the Research Team It Acqui-Hired from Virtue AI
geoffwolfe · x · 2026-10-03
According to a Semafor scoop by Ashley Gold, Meta has let go of the entire team of researchers it acqui-hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI.
Virtue AI was founded by academics including Bo Li; Meta had absorbed its team via an acqui-hire. Reasons for the dissolution were not immediately detailed.
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