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Meta: Potential To Leapfrog AI Competition With V-JEPA
Meta’s V-JEPA 2 and superintelligence lab signal bold AI ambitions, but commercial payoff remains speculative. Read why I ...
Meta Gets Out Its Checkbook to Catch Up in the AI Race
Mark Zuckerberg’s investment in Scale AI and its founder, Alexandr Wang, shows how artificial-intelligence startups have ...
5 things to know about Alexandr Wang, the buzzy Scale AI founder
Mark Zuckerberg's biggest bet on Meta AI will ride on the back of a fellow dropout who has dazzled Silicon Valley over the ...
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 In Talks To Invest Over $10B In Scale AI — Possibly The Biggest Private AI Deal This Year
Meta META is reportedly preparing to invest more than $10 billion in Scale AI, a startup providing high-quality labeled data to companies building next-generation AI models, including OpenAI and ...
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Meta's acquisition of Scale AI highlights complexities in US-China AI rivalry
Meta's acquisition of Scale AI for a reported US$14.3 billion marks a significant step in its push to strengthen artificial ...
Meta invests $14.3B in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for ‘superintelligence’ team
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to ...
Meta Set to Throw Billions at Startup That Leads AI Data Market
Three months after the Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek upended the tech world with a model that rivaled ...
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Meta invests in Scale AI, hires CEO to work on ‘superintelligence’
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is investing a “significant” amount in Scale AI and hiring the artificial intelligence (AI) company’s young CEO Alexandr Wang. The ...
Meta signs deal for advanced geothermal power in New Mexico
Meta signed an agreement with XGS Energy to help develop 150 megawatts of advanced geothermal electricity in New Mexico to ...
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Can Alexandr Wang save Meta?
As part of the deal, Alexandr Wang is leaving Scale for Meta, where he’ll work on a new “superintelligence” team (presumably in a leadership role). This isn’t a typical acquihire: only “around four ...