Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab

Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by vonneumannstan on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:16AM (#44268740)

I'm really not sure why they are acquihiring a digital sweatshop owner. It's not obvious that Wang has any special insight or expertise related to building a Superintelligence other than Data Annotation...

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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by ahoyhoy on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:37AM (#44268927)

Scale's data annotation platform Outlier is managed with tragicomic, DOGE-style incompetence. It has been in failure mode since around January.

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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by 7moritz7 on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:37AM (#44268933)

He knows what data cohere, openai and anthropic commission which is a major advantage and I doubt they'll continue relying on scale ai

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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by vonneumannstan on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:58AM (#44269127)

I assume you could individually poach entire teams away from all 3 companies for much less than $100M so this is still a strange move.

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