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Meta officially ‘acqui-hires’ Scale AI — will it draw regulator scrutiny?
The social media giant is getting CEO Alexandr Wang in a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, as it plans to build out ...
Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race
Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts ...
Meta poaches 28-year-old Scale AI CEO after taking multibillion dollar stake in startup
Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising ...
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Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up
Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly Exclusive Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI ...
Meta taps top researchers from Google, Sesame for new AI lab
The new group is part of an ambitious, and costly, effort by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to gain ground on rivals like Google ...
Meta users don’t know their intimate AI chats are out there for all to see
Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the ...
Meta’s $15 Billion Scale AI Deal Could Leave Gig Workers Behind
Scale AI built its business on the labor of gig workers. But those workers likely won't benefit from their new deal with Meta ...
Meta is turning to AI models from rivals like Anthropic to help its engineers code better
Meta's new AI tool, Devmate, is powered by models from rivals including Anthropic's Claude. It reflects how the company uses ...