From Scale AI to Perplexity: Who joined Meta’s AI Dream Team and who changed Mark Zuckerberg down
Meta has invested billions in Scale AI, lured its founder and top talents, pursuing Perplexity, but he was reprimanded, and made high-profile higher-while openi publicly fights back.
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In short
- Meta scale pledges $ 14 billion in AI, CEO hits Alexandra Wang
- Efforts on Perplexity AI and safe superintendent officers have reduced
- Openai’s Altman warns $ 100 million.
Meta AI is fighting for domination, and buying talent is in your heart. In a bold step, Mark Zuckerberg’s company agreed to invest $ 14.3billion dollars for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI, so that the company’s CEO Alexander Wang would soon lead the new “Superintendent” Division of Meta. Roots Wang confirms and many major employees will infection in the meta, although the scales are independent.
The recruitment of Wang marks a major coup when she scored at a datlabeling powerhouse at a price of $ 29 billion at a datlabeling powerhouse. Scale has played an important role in the supply of custom-labeled training data to major AI players like Openai, Google, Microsoft and XAI, making it an important force in the industry. But entry into the meta scale triggers Swift Baclash: Google, No.1 Client, has stopped their work, while other are reviewing relationships between concerns about shared data coming under the purview of Mata.
The deal is part of the “AI Superintending” push of the meta – allegedly offering nuffer payments for star engineers. As Sam Altman of Openai revealed on Theuncapped Podcast, Meta threatens the $ 100 million signature bonus and even high annual salary for his team. He said, “None of our best people have taken them,” he said that Meta sees Openai as its “biggest contestant”.
Meta has not stopped there. This allegedly attempted Perplexity AI – $ 14billionValized Search Startup to offer a interaction AI search. As BloombergMeta may have pursued seriousness even before the scale AI Kadam. In parallel, Apple is also looking for a great deal, looking at integration in safari and Siri. For now, Perplexity remains independent.
In addition, a target was a safe superintendent, which was launched by Ilya Sutaskewar, who is also the Kofounder of OpenaiI. CNBC And BaronMeta tried to buy the company and now intend to appoint its CEO Daniel Gros under Wang – Nut Freedman, with former Gitab chief.
So far, Meta has secured Wang, Gross and Freedman. But many high profile officials allegedly rejected the proposals – to choose with independent or rivals. Meta Challenge: Gather a worldclass team that can produce competitive AGIs since LLAMA4’s lukewarm reception and lost the ground. Meta has increased the annual capital expenditure to $ 64-72billion, roughly to promote AI and Datacentre capacity.
Meta’s hiring spright raises new questions: Will the big Thamping Pachek Trust and Vision, or Innovation Innovation Culture? Can the newly mined superintendent unit of Mata Unit Power AGI follow successes – or only leaders? Zuckerberg’s bets are clear: AI domination Toprank demands engineers, data assets and bold expenses. But the opponents are watching. The altman of Openai is drawing a line in the sand. Apple and Google are circled around the circle. Meanwhile, regulatory scale can investigate the deal as they did WhatsApp and Instagram – although Meta’s share did not trigger the antitrust’s review.