Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10B

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jqpabc123 · 2h ago

Didn't he spend somewhere over $40B on the "metaverse"?

Based on his history, I'm forced to take this as another sign that AI is mainly just a hype bubble.

gametorch · 2h ago

To be fair, I've built a production grade website with paying users in just 2 months, thanks to LLMs.

I do have a very solid background in software engineering, though. I think such is necessary for the current SoTa. But it easily 10x's my productivity.

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Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10B

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