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Meta to pay $15B to acquire 49% stake in Scale AI/hire Scale CEO

by htrp on 6/10/25, 6:08 PM with 6 comments

• by htrp on 6/10/25, 6:09 PM

  >Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giant’s largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of about 50 people to help Meta supercharge its AI goals — specifically, to achieve artificial general intelligence — and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is set to join that group once the deal is final, according to Bloomberg and The New York Times.

  Interesting that this is a 49% stake to effectively buy Scale's data + the data labeling team

• by harshmalik998 on 6/11/25, 9:52 AM

  Why does zuck think that a data label company will be sufficient to compete against open AI and group, why not find and pay hardcore engineers like the people at Deepseek?

• by camillomiller on 6/10/25, 10:01 PM

  >> specifically, to achieve artificial general intelligence

  Then what the heck is LeCun, one of the most vocal critics and skeptics of the current AGI empty promise, still doing at Meta!?

• by aiiizzz on 6/11/25, 6:15 AM

  Llama team failed to deliver, and it "costs" 15B to fix it

• by ahmetd on 6/11/25, 5:23 AM

  wild