Scale AI’s Business Could Collapse If Meta Buys A Stake And Hires Its CEO

Is Meta really spending $15 billion to hire a 28-year-old?

Alexandr Wang cofounded Scale AI. He's about to become a very expensive hire at Meta.

Meta's $15 Billion Scale Deal Could Leave Gig Workers Behind

Meta is reportedly set to invest $15 billion to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI, in a deal that would make Scale CEO Alexandr Wang head of the tech giant’s new AI unit dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence.” Scale AI, founded in 2016, is a leading data annotation firm that hires workers around the world to label or create the data that is used to train AI systems. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The deal is expected to greatly enrich Wang an…

Scale AI’s Business Could Collapse If Meta Buys A Stake And Hires Its CEO

The AI startup’s biggest clients, which include OpenAI and Google, won’t likely want to trust their data to a company almost half owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire.

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in Very Dark AI Company

Meta's AI development isn't going quite as well as billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. Once a frontrunner in the AI race, a year's worth of technical failures and setbacks to his company's "state-of-the-art" Llama 4 Behemoth have spurred Zuckerberg to pull out all the stops. Now, the second richest man on the planet is said to be handpicking a team of some 50 AI researchers for a shadowy "superintelligence group." To do so, he's set aside…

Meta invests $14.8 billion in Scale AI to accelerate superintelligence ambitions

Insider sources told The Information that Meta is making a bold move to reshape its artificial intelligence ambitions by investing $14.8 billion for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI, a San Francisco – based data labeling firm. Although the companies have yet to finalize the deal, it ranks among...Read Entire Article