Meta invests $14 billion in Scale to catch up in the AI race

Meta pays $ 14.3 billion to gain 49 percent of Scale AI and employ its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to renew her turbulent efforts.

As part of the deal, Wang will submit direct reports to the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg and remain on the Scale Board of Directors, both companies announced on Thursday. Sources say that Wang will lead the new Amnesty International Laboratory in Meta charged with building “SuperINGENGE”. “The company will share more about this effort and the great people who join this team in the coming weeks,” says Meta Ashley Zandy.

Zuckerberg is employing a new team of researchers from competing companies to join Wang team, according to people familiar with this issue and other press reports. Meta founder communicates with potential recruits directly- usually via a cold email or Whatsapp-message- and attract some of them away from companies such as Google with seven compensation packages and eight numbers.

Scale works with Google, Openai, Anthropic and others to help train their models by making humans have died and naming the data they feed. Most of this work is done through low -cost employment outside the United States, and it has become a decisive component in developing artificial intelligence. With Wang joining Meta, Scale Jason Droege, the former chief official of the strategy, as a new temporary executive president.

“It has grown to more than 1500 people and becomes the trusted partner for models, institutions and governments and publishing the smartest tools and applications,” said Wang, who has become 21 years old, is known to be the youngest billionaire in the world.

“Scale is now one of the most influential companies in the world, rushing to develop what may be the most important technology in human history. Today, we announce a huge new investment from Meta. This is a major milestone and a strong achievement of the hard work that all it put on the Scale mission.”

Wang added that “Meta’s investment returns will be distributed to those who are shareholders and holders of acquired stocks, while maintaining the opportunity to continue to participate in our future growth as continuous holders of shares.”

By not acquiring the full range, you follow the firm Meta Playbook from the Big Tech to employ the main AI talent while also investing in startups. This process is designed to reduce the risk of scrutiny in anti -monopoly; However, the governments are likely to remain in the deal with governments, although Meta will only receive unseen shares in the company.

This year, Scale signed a deal with the Ministry of Defense for the Program of the Undersecretary of its kind for American military planning. Since then, she has expanded her business with other governments, which has been recently concluded with a five -year deal to provide artificial intelligence tools to Qatar. The company’s work with governments in Asia and Europe can lead to a large part of its total sales during the next two quarters.

Meanwhile, Meta went to the trial to defend itself from the disintegration of the US government. The result of this issue is still unconfirmed.

Since the appearance of the disappointing Llama 4 this year, the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg was keen to catch competitors like Google, Openai, Anthropic and Deepseek. The Llama 4 version was delayed several times, then Meta was arrested playing the general leaders’ plate to make the model look better than it was already. The company still did not issue Llama 4 Beheemoth, the largest and most expensive version that was disturbed in April.

Last month, Zuckerberg said that two of the top priorities of Meta for 2025 made its rival in Chatgpt, Meta AI, “AI is the leading character” and “Building full general intelligence”. He recently stated that Meta AI has reached one billion monthly users, although the emergence of the assistant via Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook strongly affects this number.

In April, Meta released an independent application of Meta Ai, and it features social feeding how it is used for people. The application briefly reached the top of the application store, but it did not maintain this popular level.