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Meta finalized its investment of $ 14.3 billion in the AI scale, which now values the startup which provides other companies with data labeling and model assessment for AI training at $ 29 billion. As part of the agreement, the founder and CEO of the AI scale, Alexandr Wang, will join Meta. According to The New York TimesWang will direct the “Superintelligence Laboratory” of Meta de Meta. A few days ago, several reports said that the meta-chief Mark Zuckerberg personally supervised the recruitment of a team to which it is gathering reach a superintendent of AI.
Zuckerberg, who would have been frustrated by the quality of Meta’s Llama 4 LLM, invited potential recruits to his home and offering them remuneration packages worth seven -digit. Wang declared in his note to evolve the employees that he takes some other people from the startup with him in Meta to work on artificial intelligence. Meta has not yet officially announced the team and to reveal what their role will be, but their ultimate objective based on the name of “superintelligence Lab” is to develop AI with intellectual powers far beyond all humans.
This investment is the second largest in Meta after its $ 19 billion in WhatsApp. With its $ 14.3 billion investment, Meta will have a 49% participation in the scale But will have little control over its operations. Time said the companies had decided on this structure to avoid being examined by regulators. Both Amazon $ 4 billion in investment In Anthropic and Microsoft Current links with Openai were surveyed by regulators after all. The meta itself is always Fight the FTC In an antitrust case on its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions.
In his note to the employees, Wang wrote that “the opportunities of this magnitude”, concerning Meta’s investment, “cost”. This cost, he said, was his departure. Wang will sign the board of directors of Scale, but his CEO post will be taken over by Jason Droege, director of the Startup’s current strategy.
