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Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts.
In a bold move to rejuvenate its lagging artificial intelligence division, Meta has invested $14.3 billion to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI, and, more significantly, brought on board Scale’s CEO, Alexandr Wang.
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Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join upMark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly Exclusive Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.… CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself has taken to emailing job offers to elite talent.
Meta has launched an aggressive campaign to recruit top-tier engineers, including talent from competitors like Google, to accelerate its pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The new group is part of an ambitious, and costly, effort by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to gain ground on rivals like Google and OpenAI after he was frustrated by the poor reception to the company’s
As ChatGPT’s partial outage yesterday goes to show, AI companies are still struggling to scale up to artificial general intelligence.