Overview

• Meta agreed to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI for a 49% stake to bring its founder, Alexandr Wang, and other top engineers into its AI research efforts.
• After Safe Superintelligence rebuffed a $32 billion acquisition offer, Meta recruited CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub chief Nat Friedman to work under Wang.
• Meta engaged in talks to acquire Perplexity AI but ultimately walked away from the discussions without a deal.
• The company dangled signing bonuses of up to $100 million to poach OpenAI employees, though OpenAI countered the offers and retained its leading researchers.
• Mark Zuckerberg is assembling a dedicated superintelligence group at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters to accelerate the development of advanced AI capabilities.