Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Meta is paying $14.3 cardinal to bargain 49-percent of Scale AI and prosecute its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts.

As portion of the deal, Wang volition study straight to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the institution announced connected Thursday. He volition pb a caller AI laboratory wrong Meta tasked with gathering "superintelligence" and stay connected Scale's committee of directors. "We volition stock much astir this effort and the large radical joining this squad successful the coming weeks," Meta spokesperson Ashley Zandy said successful a statement.

For the past respective weeks, Zuckerberg has been actively recruiting a caller squad of researchers from rival firms to enactment for Wang's caller team, according to radical acquainted with the substance and different property reports. Zuckerberg has reached retired to would-be recruits straight - usually via a acold email oregon WhatsApp connection - and lured immoderate of them from companies similar Google with 7 and eight-figure compensation packages.

Scale works with Google, OpenAI, and others to assistance bid their models by having humans annotate and statement the information that feeds them. Most of that enactment is done through low-cost labour extracurricular of the US, and it has go a captious constituent of AI development.

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