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Meta has invested 15 billion USD in the data label start-up-KI and hired its co-founder Alexandr Wang to attract talents of competitors in a highly competitive market.
The Deal Values Scale at USD 29 billion doubles its evaluation last year. Same said that it would “essentially expand his commercial relationship with Meta in order to accelerate the provision of the data solutions from Scale without giving further details. The scale helps companies improve their artificial intelligence Models by providing labeled training data.
The scale distributes the proceeds from the investment of Meta to shareholders, and Meta will have 49 percent of the scale capital according to the transaction.
Wang, who was also the managing director of Scale, will “work on Meta’s AI efforts” in his new role. MetaHowever, his new job title did not reveal.
The 28 -year -old Wang will remain in the scale on the board, which Jason Droege has appointed Chief Strategy Officer. Droege helped the start of Uber Eats as an interim CEO and joined scale in September.
“The investment of Meta recognizes the previous services from Scale and confirms that our way forward – like that of AI – is limitless,” said Wang. “I am very pleased that Jason will lead the next steps in the journey of the scale.”
Metas investment is the latest attempt by managing director Mark Zuckerberg, his social media company worth 1.8 TN to give an advantage in the race for more powerful AI models. Zuckerberg tried to poach top researchers and engineers from competing groups to expand a new “superintelligence” team.
The deal is one of the largest of its kind, since technology companies are increasingly acquiring strikes for investments in start-ups and at the same time their top employees. Last year Microsoft paid USD 650 million to stop the bending director Mustafa Sulyman and his top lieutenants and licens the technology of the start-up. Google also paid USD 2.7 billion for a similar agreement with character.ai.
Meta has strongly invested in generative AI, with the majority of its planned investment expenses this year for data centers and server $ 72 billion in capital expenses. The deal underlines the high AI companies that are willing to pay data with which AI models can be trained.
Pile of sugar promises last year The fact that the models of his company would exceed the competitors in 2025, but the recent publication of Meta, Lama 4, has various independent argumentation and coding benchmarks below average.
The long -term goal of META researchers has always been to achieve human intelligence and go beyond, “said Yann Lecun, the chief scientist of the company at Vivatech Conference in Paris this week.
The establishment of an artificial “general” intelligence AI technologies with intelligence on human level is a popular destination for many AI companies. An increasing number of Silicon Valley groups also tries to achieve “superintelligence”, a hypothetical scenario in which AI systems exceed human intelligence.
The core of the scaling business was data education, a manual process of ensuring that images and text are precisely labeled and categorized before using AI models.
Wang has relationships with the greatest investors and technologists from Silicon Valley, including Sam Altman from Openaai. The early customers of Skala Ai were autonomous vehicle companies, but the majority of its expected income of USD 2 billion this year will result in the identification of the data for the formation of the massive AI models built by Openai and other built.
The deal will lead to a significant payment day for the early risk capital investors of Scale, including accel, tiger global management and index ventures. According to a person with knowledge of the matter, the investment of Tiger of USD 200 million is worth more than 1 billion USD for the new evaluation of the company.
Additional reporting from Tabby Children in San Francisco
