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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by laborcontract on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:14AM (#44268716)
This is by all indications the world's most expensive acquihire of a single person. Reporting has been that Zuckerberg has seen Wang as a confidant of sorts, and has proposed a vision of AI that's said to be non consensus.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by Bjorkbat on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:17AM (#44268753)
Fair enough. If you aren't willing to give your friend $14 billion to join your company so you can hang out more, then are you two really friends?
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by mjburgess on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:16PM (#44270348)
I could see a friend giving me 4% of his net worth on those terms, esp. if i might return a few percent, in the fullness of time.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by bee_rider on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:59PM (#44270678)
It also seems like a sort of different situation with Zuck because, I’m pretty sure, he’ll still be able to get by with only 96% of his net worth.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by rokobobo on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:40PM (#44270522)
If a friend doesn’t give you 4% of their net worth, how can you be certain you are one of their 25 closest friends?
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by michaelrwolfe1 on Friday June 13, 2025 @02:46PM (#44271109)
Wang didn't get $14b, he only owns about 15% of Scale. We also don't know how much he sold. He could have sold all of his stock (netting him around $4.5b), none, or something in the middle.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by krosaen on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:16AM (#44268734)
but did you see that now Wang is leaving as part of this?
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by paxys on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:18AM (#44268755)
He is leaving to join Meta.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by laborcontract on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:18AM (#44268758)
He is leaving to now work at Meta.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by krosaen on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:27AM (#44268845)
ah whoops, thanks.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by egillie on Friday June 13, 2025 @11:56PM (#44274081)
Where did you find the reporting about the non consensus ai view? That’s the most interesting take I’ve heard on this
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