Meta is paying $14.3 billion to purchase 49-percent of Scale AI and rent its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts.
As a part of the deal, Wang will report on to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the corporate introduced on Thursday. He’ll lead a brand new AI lab inside Meta tasked with constructing “superintelligence” and stay on Scale’s board of administrators. “We’ll share extra about this effort and the nice folks becoming a member of this workforce within the coming weeks,” Meta spokesperson Ashley Zandy mentioned in an announcement.
For the previous a number of weeks, Zuckerberg has been actively recruiting a brand new workforce of researchers from rival corporations to work for Wang’s new workforce, in accordance with folks acquainted with the matter and different press studies. Zuckerberg has reached out to would-be recruits straight — often through a chilly e-mail or WhatsApp message — and lured a few of them from firms like Google with seven and eight-figure compensation packages.
Scale works with Google, OpenAI, and others to assist prepare their fashions by having people annotate and label the info that feeds them. Most of that work is completed by low-cost labor exterior of the US, and it has change into a crucial part of AI improvement.
For the reason that disappointing debut of Llama 4 earlier this yr, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been wanting to meet up with rivals like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. Llama 4’s launch was delayed a number of occasions, after which Meta was caught gaming a public leaderboard to make the mannequin seem higher than it truly was. The corporate has nonetheless not launched Llama 4 Behemoth, its largest and costliest model that was teased in April.
Final month, Zuckerberg mentioned that two of Meta’s prime priorities for 2025 are making its ChatGPT rival, Meta AI, “the main private AI” and “constructing full common intelligence.” He just lately said that Meta AI has reached one billion month-to-month customers, though the prominence of the assistant throughout Instagram, WhatsApp, and Fb closely influences this quantity.
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