Meta is paying $ 14.3 billion to acquire 49 percent of its CEO, Alexandra Wang to re -create its upset AI efforts.
As part of the deal, Wang will directly report Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and remain in the board of directors, both companies announced on Thursday. Sources say that Wang will lead a new AI lab in Meta, which will work with the manufacture of “Superintending”. Meta spokesperson Ashley Zandi says that the company will “share more about this effort and the great people who join this team in the coming weeks.”
According to people familiar with the case and other press reports, Zuckerberg is actively recruiting a new team of researchers from rival firms to join Wang’s team. The founders of the meta are directly accessible to the possible recruitments- usually through a cold email or WhatsApp message- and some of them wooed them with seven and eight and eight-unknowable compensation packages from companies such as Google.
The scale works with Google, Openai, Anthropic and others to help humans to train their models by enotting and labeled the data that feeds them. Most of that work are Done through low cost labor outside AmericaAnd it has become an important component of AI development. With joining the meta in Wang, the scale is naming its former Chief Strategy Officer, Jason Draws, as its new interim CEO.
“We have grown up to over 1,500 people and have become reliable partners for model builders, enterprises and governments and create and deploy clever al-al-tools and applications,” Wang, who is known as the world’s youngest billionaire due to his stake in the company at the age of 21, said, “said” said, “said” In a memorandum To scale employees.
“Scale is now one of the most influential companies in the world, which can be the most important technology in human history, accelerates the development of the most important. Today, we are announcing a large -scale new investment from Meta. It is a major milestone and a powerful verification of hard work that you have put in the mission of all the scale.”
Wang said that “Income from Meta’s investment will be distributed to those of you who are shareholders and inherent equity holders, while the ongoing equity holders maintain an opportunity to continue to participate in our future development.”
Following is not fully received, the following is Big Tech installed playbook To hire the key AI talent even while investing in your startup. This process is designed to reduce the risk of antitrust probe; However, the possibility of a deal with the scale can still be done by governments, even if Meta will receive only non-polls shares in the company.
This year, Scale signed an agreement with the Defense Department for the first AI agent program for the US military scheme. Since then, it has expanded its business with other governments, recently signed a five -year deal to provide AI equipment to Qatar. The company’s work with governments in Asia and Europe can be a major part of its overall sales in the next two quarters.
Meta, meanwhile, just went to test Protect yourself from being broken by US governmentThe result of that case is still uncertain.
Since the disappointing beginning of Lama 4 earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been eager to catch with contestants such as Google, Openai, Anthropic and Deepsek. The release of Lama 4 was delayed several times, and then the meta was caught A public leaderboard gaming This was really to make the model look really better. The company still has not released the biggest and most expensive version of LLAma 4 Behemoth, which was launched in April.
Last month, Zuckerberg stated that two top priorities of Meta for 2025 are making their spit rival, Meta AI, “leading personal AI” and “building full general intelligence”. He recently stated that Meta AI has reached one billion monthly users, although the prominence of assistants across Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook affects this number greatly.
In April, Meta released A standalone app for Meta AIA social feed is characterized Show how people are using itThe app briefly reached the top of the app store, but has not maintained the popularity of that level.
