>Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giant’s largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of about 50 people to help Meta supercharge its AI goals — specifically, to achieve artificial general intelligence — and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is set to join that group once the deal is final, according to Bloomberg and The New York Times.
Interesting that this is a 49% stake to effectively buy Scale's data + the data labeling team
harshmalik998 · 3d ago
Why does zuck think that a data label company will be sufficient to compete against open AI and group, why not find and pay hardcore engineers like the people at Deepseek?
camillomiller · 4d ago
>> specifically, to achieve artificial general intelligence
Then what the heck is LeCun, one of the most vocal critics and skeptics of the current AGI empty promise, still doing at Meta!?
Reubend · 4d ago
LeCun is not a skeptic of AGI; he's a skeptic that LLMs will achieve AGI. For what it's worth, I agree with him. I think we'll need innovations beyond just fine tuning LLMs with RL to take us to the point where they can reason about data they've never been trained on before.
aiiizzz · 4d ago
Llama team failed to deliver, and it "costs" 15B to fix it
Interesting that this is a 49% stake to effectively buy Scale's data + the data labeling team
Then what the heck is LeCun, one of the most vocal critics and skeptics of the current AGI empty promise, still doing at Meta!?