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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by trhway on Friday June 13, 2025 @06:52PM (#44272999)
Meta buys 900 AI employees here at less than $20M/head. Pretty cheap these days. Any IP the company has is a bonus.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by dcsan on Friday June 13, 2025 @09:45PM (#44273654)
850 people doing data labelling?
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by trhway on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:41AM (#44275329)
i don't think anybody is having data labelers as employees.
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Re:Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintell... by mattlondon on Sunday June 15, 2025 @04:11AM (#44281198)
Nah - I think of Scale as "like Uber but for AI data". I.e. they match humans to AI companies wanting to do RLHF.
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