Meta invested almost $15 billion, acquiring half of Scale AI to hire its founder Alexander Wang.
Now the 28-year-old AI entrepreneur is creating a laboratory for superintelligence development at Meta.
Why such expenses? The company needs to catch up with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic — and access to Scale's data infrastructure turned out to be key.
This is one of those cases where the price of the deal seems astronomical, but in the context of the AI race and Meta's strategic ambitions, it may be quite justified.
What do you think: is such a scale of the deal justified for one talented person?
P.S. Alexander Wang is not just a 'talented person'. He is one of the youngest and most influential entrepreneurs in the AI field. Under his leadership, Scale AI became the backbone of the infrastructure for training models at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. That is:
He is not just an AI developer but the creator of a critically important ecosystem for AI breakthroughs.
He has access to large and unique datasets that the biggest players envy.