Overview

• Meta’s $14.3 billion deal grants a 49 percent non-voting stake in Scale AI while preserving the startup’s independence under a unique operational structure.
• Alexandr Wang will join Meta to head a dedicated superintelligence research lab and integrate Scale’s data-labeling platform into its AI development.
• Major Scale AI clients including Google, Microsoft and Elon Musk’s xAI have paused or wound down projects over perceived conflicts of interest.
• Meta has dangled compensation packages reportedly exceeding $100 million to top AI researchers but so far has failed to recruit key scientists from OpenAI.
• The partnership complements Meta’s broader AI push, reinforcing its Louisiana data center expansion and aiming to address performance gaps in its Llama4 model.