Meta pays $ 14 billion to catch up with the race of artificial intelligence

Meta pays $ 14.3 billion to buy 49 percent of Scale Ai and employ its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to restart its turbulent efforts.

As part of the deal, Wang will submit direct reports to the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, the two companies announced on Thursday. A new AI laboratory will lead within the Meta in charge of building “SuperInteigence” and remains on the Scale Board of Directors. “We will share more about this effort and the great people who join this team in the coming weeks,” Meta spokeswoman Ashley Zanda said in a statement.

Zuckerberg is hiring a new team of researchers from competing companies to work in the new Wang team, according to people familiar with the matter and other press reports. Meta founder communicates directly to the potential recruits-usually via a cold email or WhatsApp message-and some of them were attracted from companies such as Google with seven compensation packages and eight numbers.

Scale works with Google, Openai and others to help train their models by making humans to clarify and naming the data they feed. Most of this work is done through low -cost employment outside the United States, and it has become a decisive component in developing artificial intelligence. With Wang went to Meta, the new CEO Scale named: Jason Droege, chief official of the previous strategy.

Wang said: “It has grown to more than 1500 people and becomes the trusted partner in building models, institutions and governments, building and publishing the smartest tools and applications.” In a note To expand employees. “Scale is now one of the most influential companies in the world, rushing to develop what may be the most important technology in human history. Today, we announce a huge new investment from Meta. This is a major milestone and a strong achievement of the hard work that all it put on the Scale mission.”

He added that “Meta’s investment revenues will be distributed to those who are shareholders and holders of acquired stocks, while maintaining the opportunity to continue to participate in our future growth as continuous holders of shares.”

Since the appearance of the disappointing Llama 4 this year, the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg was keen to catch competitors like Google, Openai, Anthropic and Deepseek. The Llama 4 version was delayed several times, then Meta was arrested playing the general leaders’ plate to make the model look better than it was already. The company still did not issue Llama 4 Beheemoth, the largest and most expensive version that was disturbed in April.

Last month, Zuckerberg said that two of the top priorities of Meta for 2025 made its rival in Chatgpt, Meta AI, “AI is the leading character” and “Building full general intelligence”. He recently stated that Meta AI has reached one billion monthly users, although the emergence of the assistant via Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook strongly affects this number.

In April, Meta released an independent application of Meta Ai, and it features social feeding how it is used for people. The application briefly reached the top of the application store, but it did not maintain this popular level.

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