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Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49% of Scale, the AI industry’s leading data dealer. Scale CEO Alexandr Wang will report to Zuck.
Zuck is forming a new “superintelligence” AI group.
As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and remain on Scale’s board of directors, both companies announced on Thursday. The Meta founder has reached out to potential recruits directly — usually via a cold email or WhatsApp message — and lured some of them away from companies like Google with seven- and eight-figure compensation packages. “We’ve grown to over 1,500 people and become the trusted partner for model builders, enterprises, and governments building and deploying the smartest Al tools and applications,” Wang, who at age 21 became known as the world’s youngest self-made billionaire because of his stake in the company, said in a memo to Scale employees.
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