With the second largest investment in the history of the company and a prominent staff, Meta stimulates the development of an artificial “super intelligence”. The Facebook mother announced the entry of billion dollars to the AI data specialist Scale AI on Friday.
Moreover, his boss Alexandr Wang will lead in the future Ministry of Meta for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), who achieves or performs human intellectual skills.
The American group has not given any financial details of the transaction. According to insiders, Meta pays $ 14.3 billion (12.3 billion euros) for almost half of the AI shares of the scale. This is the second biggest transaction, because WhatsApp took over for $ 19 billion in 2014. Scale AI is evaluated with $ 29 billion as part of this transaction – a doubling compared to the financing round a year ago.
Wang is the actual takeover destination of Zuckerberg
The main objective of Metas was the obligation of the 28-year-old cheek, as the insiders emphasized. The Son Chinese immigrant, born in the US, is not an AI developer, but, like OpenAi -Baas Sam Altman, has made a business model of this technology.
Wang, who had demolished his studies at the renowned university, brought it to a billionaire with aan scale. The company, founded in 2016, is one of the customers. The start-up offers tons of data records given by people with keyword essential for the training of Chatgpt, Gemini & Co.
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is promised by the newcomer to breathe new life into his AI division, which has to do with setbacks. According to Media reports, Meta has postponed the publication of the latest AI version Llama 4 “Behemoth” because of doubts about their performance. Zuckerberg then made the recruitment of extra experts a top priority.
The development of an “artificial general intelligence” (artificial general intelligence, AGI) is considered the holy grail of the industry and as a potentially multi -million dollar company. These programs can solve tasks independently and not rely on human instructions.
Risks and side effects
Although Meta will have almost half of the AI scale in the future, the Facebook mother does not strive for a board of the AI company, the insiders said. According to the company, Wangs, as CEO of Scale AI, temporarily takes over the current strategy boss Jason. Wang, however, remains a member of the Board of Directors. The CO founder of scale AI has also announced that some of the 1500 employees take them to Meta.
It remained unclear whether there are anti -antitrust laws. Meta must defend itself against a possible shame in court because the group WhatsApp and Instagram reportedly bought at excessive prizes to achieve a dominant position.
Risks are also withheld for scale AI: customers can turn away if they fear that the member of the board of directors could eavesdropping on their commercial secrets on meta.
Source: Krone
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