Alexandra Wang, CEO of Scalia, speaks on CNBC’s squalk box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Switzerland on 23 January 2025.
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Scale AI founder Alexandra Wang Told the staff On Thursday, in a memorandum that he is leaving for Meta, confirming a report about a large investment from his departure and social networking company in the first week.
Meta A spokesman for the AI ​​said that as part of the deal, Scale AI is pumping $ 14.3 billion, and there would be a 49% stake in Artificial Intelligence Startup, but there will be no voting power.
“As you probably gathered from recent news, the opportunities of this magnitude often come at a cost,” Wang wrote in the memo that he shared on X. “In this example, this cost is my departure. It has been the greatest enjoyment of my life to serve as your CEO.”
Scale AI is promoting Jason drawFor the role of the Chief Strategy Officer, CEO. Draws were first benchmark and a venture partner in A Uber Vice President.
There will also be a small number of AI employees Join the meta as part of The compromise, Wang wrote.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed that the company has finalized its “strategic partnership and investment in Scale AI”.
The spokesperson said, “As part of it, we will deepen the work producing data for the AI ​​model and Alexandra Wang will join the meta to work on our superintendent efforts.” “We will share more about this effort and the great people joining this team in the coming weeks.”
Meta stakes on Wang fits in CEO Mark zuckerberg Openai and Google Parent Alphabet plans to increase their company’s efforts amid fierce competition from Alphabet. Zuckerberg has made Ai its company Supreme priority for 2025But with his team rapidly disappointed, especially as the latest version of its head of Meta Lama ai model Get a tepid Developers responseCNBC explained earlier this week.
Although Zuckerberg has traditionally placed a long -running employees in high ranked positions, he decided that the outer Wang would be better favorable to oversee the AI ​​initiatives considered important for the company.
Many meta rivals are counted as scale AI customers Google, Microsoft And Openai. Meta Scale is one of the biggest customers of AI.
A spokesperson for the Scale AI said that the startup customers would not be affected by the investment of the meta and the work of Wang, and this meta would not be private for any of its commercial information or data.
