The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal.

More on Meta's plans for Scale AI as Hollywood drops the hammer on AI companies that generate its characters. XR goes mainstream with new AR Glasses from Google and Snap.

Meta is making an investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting Chief Executive Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

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.

As the AI boom intensified, Scale AI became the industry's secret weapon—quietly supplying the data backbone behind the most powerful machine learning models. While the spotlight often fell on flashy frontier model labs,

Google has decided to end its partnership with Scfale AI after Meta acquired 49% stake in the company and its CEO, Alexander Wang joined Meta, as concern for data security grows.

The social media giant is getting CEO Alexandr Wang in a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, as it plans to build out ‘superintelligent’ systems.