Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI 13
Meta has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI while recruiting the startup's CEO to join its AI team, marking an aggressive move by the social media giant to accelerate its AI development efforts. The unusual deal gives Meta a 49% non-voting stake in Scale, valuing the company at more than $29 billion. Scale co-founder Alexandr Wang will join Meta's "superintelligence" unit, which focuses on building AI systems that perform as well as humans -- a theoretical milestone known as artificial general intelligence.
Wang will remain on Scale's board while Jason Droege takes over as interim CEO. The investment represents Meta's intensified push to compete in AI development after CEO Mark Zuckerberg grew frustrated with the lukewarm reception of the company's Llama 4 language model, which launched in April. Since then, Zuckerberg has taken a hands-on approach to recruiting AI talent, hosting job candidates at his personal homes and reorganizing Meta's offices to position the superintelligence team closer to his workspace.
Wang will remain on Scale's board while Jason Droege takes over as interim CEO. The investment represents Meta's intensified push to compete in AI development after CEO Mark Zuckerberg grew frustrated with the lukewarm reception of the company's Llama 4 language model, which launched in April. Since then, Zuckerberg has taken a hands-on approach to recruiting AI talent, hosting job candidates at his personal homes and reorganizing Meta's offices to position the superintelligence team closer to his workspace.
Scale AI is a *** coun scam (Score:3)
No idea how that can escape an "investor".
Scale etc. is a conglomerate of Bitcoin/stable coin scam companies.
One must be pretty daft to "invest" something into them.
Outlier.ai
Minddrift
BrainTrust
Airtm
And half a dozen more, which I do not recall from memory.
Good luck with them.
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They are the patsy. They sign off on all this training data and take the fall when the lawsuits come.
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They already have law cases for not paying minimum wage in California.
They pay everything in a stable coin, accept only "one bank" as payment partner, which takes about 10% fee for converting the money to "real money".
They have a referrer program, that paid until a few days ago $500 for every one joining them (and working for them), yesterday it dropped to $5, this day it was $65, now it is $5 again.
They have a web site, that has minimum two web pages inside the same HTML, depending on what link you open th
They should get along well... (Score:2)
What it AI turns into a big boondoggle ever ? (Score:2)
Look like the "investors" are getting desperate (Score:2)
Obviously, all the fantastic supposed benefits of LLMs have not materialized. Instead some small things have. But apparently the money-people do not get that this is a problem with the whole approcah and hence they stupidly continue to try to buy their way in.