Meta to pay $15B to acquire 49% stake in Scale AI/hire Scale CEO

>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

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?

>> 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!?

Llama team failed to deliver, and it "costs" 15B to fix it

wild