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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.
The social media giant is getting CEO Alexandr Wang in a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, as it plans to build out ‘superintelligent’ systems.
Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.
Mark Zuckerberg is said to be hiring about 50 members for a new team working on AI-driven projects including artificial general intelligence.
Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly forming a new lab to develop superintelligence, a term for artificial intelligence models that can outperform humans at many tasks. The New York Times detailed the initiative today.
Meta's new AI tool, Devmate, is powered by models from rivals including Anthropic's Claude. It reflects how the company uses competitor AI models.
According to Amazon Web Services, it’s the first cloud provider to meet those federal security requirements for the Anthropic and Meta foundation models.
Select versions of the Claude and Llama foundation models will be available for public sector customers via the AWS GovCloud.