{"id":29566,"date":"2025-06-13T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29566"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:26:14","slug":"meta-invests-14-3-billion-in-scale-ai-to-kick-start-superintelligence-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29566","title":{"rendered":"Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.<\/p>\n

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Meta said on Thursday that it planned to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI, a start-up that works with data to train artificial intelligence systems, in a deal that Meta hopes will add needed muscle to its disappointing A.I. division.<\/p>\n

As a condition of the deal, Alexandr Wang, Scale AI\u2019s 28-year-old chief executive, plans to join Meta in a top leadership role in the new division, which Meta is calling its Superintelligence lab. Mr. Wang, whom people inside Meta have taken to calling a visionary leader, will also bring a team of employees from Scale AI to work at Meta.<\/p>\n

The move to invest billions in Scale AI, an amount equal to about 10 percent of Meta\u2019s revenue in 2024, would be Meta\u2019s first major minority investment in an outside company. It is Meta\u2019s second-largest deal, after the $19 billion acquisition of the messaging app WhatsApp about 11 years ago.<\/p>\n

Meta is scrambling to catch up with A.I. competitors such as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, as industry executives jockey for an edge in what they believe will be the most transformative technology in a generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMeta has finalized our strategic partnership and investment in Scale AI,\u201d a spokesperson for Meta said in a statement. \u201cAs part of this, we will deepen the work we do together producing data for A.I. models, and Alexandr Wang will join Meta to work on our superintelligence efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alexandr Wang, chief executive of Scale AI, in Paris during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in February.<\/span>Gonzalo Fuentes\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.Meta said on Thursday that it planned to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI, a start-up that works with data to train artificial intelligence systems, in a deal that Meta hopes will add needed muscle to its disappointing A.I. division.As a condition of the deal, Alexandr Wang, Scale AI\u2019s 28-year-old chief executive, plans to join Meta in a top leadership role in the new division, which Meta is calling its Superintelligence lab. Mr. Wang, whom people inside Meta have taken to calling a visionary leader, will also bring a team of employees from Scale AI to work at Meta.The move to invest billions in Scale AI, an amount equal to about 10 percent of Meta\u2019s revenue in 2024, would be Meta\u2019s first major minority investment in an outside company. It is Meta\u2019s second-largest deal, after the $19 billion acquisition of the messaging app WhatsApp about 11 years ago.Meta is scrambling to catch up with A.I. competitors such as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, as industry executives jockey for an edge in what they believe will be the most transformative technology in a generation.\u201cMeta has finalized our strategic partnership and investment in Scale AI,\u201d a spokesperson for Meta said in a statement. \u201cAs part of this, we will deepen the work we do together producing data for A.I. models, and Alexandr Wang will join Meta to work on our superintelligence efforts.\u201dAlexandr Wang, chief executive of Scale AI, in Paris during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in February.Gonzalo Fuentes\/ReutersWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29568,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29569,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions\/29569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}