The finish pays $ 14.3 billion to take over 49 percent of artificial intelligence and employing its general director, Alexander Wang, to renew AI’s restless efforts.
Under the agreement, Wang will report directly to the meta CEO of Marek Zuckerberg and will remain on the Scale board, both companies announced on Thursday. Sources say that Wang will lead a up-to-date AI laboratory in Meta, which is designed to build “Superinteligence”. Meta spokesman, Ashley Zanda, says that the company “will share more about this effort, and great people join this team in the coming weeks.”
Zuckerberg actively recruits a up-to-date team of scientists from competing companies to join the Wang team, according to people familiar with matters and other press reports. The founder of Meta contacted directly with potential recruits- usually via a cool email or WhatsApp- and lured some of them companies such as Google with seven- and eight-digit compensation packages.
The scale cooperates with Google, Opeli, Anthropic and others to aid in training their models by providing people and marking the data that feed them. Most of these works are done through economical work outside the USA and has become a key element of AI’s development. With the attachment of Wang Meta Scale, he calls Jason Droege, a former strategy director, his up-to-date transient director.
“We have become more than 1,500 people and became a trusted partner for model builders, enterprises and governments building and implementing the smartest tools and applications of AL,” said Wang, who at the age of 21 became known as the youngest Self -Fed billionaire because of his participation in the company In the note Scale employees.
“The scale is currently one of the most influential companies in the world, accelerating the development of the most important technology in human history. Today we are announcing a huge new investment from Meta. This is the main milestone and a powerful validation of hard work, which you all put into a mission.”
Wang added that “the influence of the Meta investment will be divided into people of you who are shareholders and own capital owners, while maintaining the possibility of further participation in our future development as the current owners of the campaign.”
By not fully acquiring the scale, the finish line warns the recognized BIG TECH handbook with employment of key AI talents, while investing in its startups. This process aims to reduce the risk of antitrust control; However, the contract with the scale will probably be still controlled by governments, despite the fact that the finish will only receive unbelievable shares in the company.
This year, Scale has signed a contract with the Department of Defense for the original AI agents program for US military planning. Since then, he has expanded his activity to other governments, recently concluding a five -year contract for the delivery of AI tools for Qatar. The work of a company with governments in Asia and Europe can lead to the disputed part of general sales over the next two quarters.
Meanwhile, the finish line has just gone to the trial to defend itself against breaking by the US government. The result of this case is still uncertain.
From the disappointing debut of Llamy 4 at the beginning of this year, the meta CEO of Mark Zuckerberg willingly caught up with competitors such as Google, Opeli, Anthropic and Deepseek. The release of Lama 4 was delayed many times, and then the finish was caught to play the public table of leaders to make the model look better than in reality. The company still did not release Llam 4 Beemoth, its largest and most costly version, which was irritated in April.
Last month, Zuckerberg said that two of the most crucial meta priorities for 2025. Rivals from Chatgpt, Meta AI, “leading personal artificial intelligence” and “building full general intelligence”. He recently stated that Meta AI achieved one billion users a month, although the importance of the assistant on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook strongly affects this number.
In April, the finish has released an independent application for Meta AI, containing a social canal that shows how people employ it. The application briefly reached the APP STORE summit, but did not maintain this level of popularity.