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Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.
Mark Zuckerberg’s investment in Scale AI and its founder, Alexandr Wang, shows how artificial-intelligence startups have become farm teams for the big-spending giants.
Meta is bringing on Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang in a deal worth up to $15 billion to lead a new superintelligence lab and reboot its AI ambitions with cutting-edge data expertise
Meta has bought nearly half of Scale AI for $15 ... its staff or furthering AI research, according to multiple people who have worked with him," per the Financial Times. And regardless of what ...
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Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join upMark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly Exclusive Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.… CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself has taken to emailing job offers to elite talent.
Key Takeaways Meta invests $15B in Scale AI to boost its Artificial Intelligence capabilities.The deal positions Meta as a serious contender in Artificial Gener
Google, Scale AI's biggest client, intends to shift its $200 million workload for human-labeled training data to rival companies following the Meta deal.
Scale AI plans to name Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege as its next CEO following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta, Bloomberg reported. Founder and current CEO Alexandr Wang is expected to leave the data-labeling startup and join Meta as part of the deal,
Zuckerberg is throwing pro-athlete-level salaries at top AI researchers. But for many, prestige, trust, and tribal loyalties matter more.