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Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI

(Friday June 13, 2025 @03:00AM (msmash) from the aggressive-bets dept.)


Meta has [1]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.



[1] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-invests-ai-firm-scale-014012442.html


Scale AI is a *** coun scam (Score:3)

by angel'o'sphere ( 80593 )

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.

Re: (Score:3)

by Uldis Segliņš ( 4468089 )

When exactly was f not a scam?

Re: (Score:2)

by Njovich ( 553857 )

They are the patsy. They sign off on all this training data and take the fall when the lawsuits come.

They should get along well... (Score:2)

by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 )

As best I can tell Scale mostly does landing military contracts and underpaying the cheapest possible expendable gig workers to do image classification; so I can see the culture fit with Zuckerberg's attempt at a broligarch makeover.

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