Overview
- Meta closed its $14.3 billion purchase of a 49 percent stake in Scale AI to secure privileged access to high-quality training data.
- Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang has joined Meta to lead its newly formed superintelligence lab alongside a team of roughly 50 researchers.
- Business Insider revealed that Scale AI routinely stored sensitive client and contractor files in public Google Docs, triggering an internal security investigation.
- Key clients including Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI paused or wound down projects with Scale AI after news of the investment and document exposures.
- Mark Zuckerberg is personally courting top AI researchers with incentive packages up to $100 million, although OpenAI’s CEO says none of its best talent have accepted.