$14B Meta Investment in Scale AI Boosts Plans for Superintelligence Lab

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

Meta commits $14 billion to Scale AI, kick-starting an in-house superintelligence lab, its boldest AI financing yet.

According to The New York Times and Scale AI’s official announcement, the partnership expands Meta’s access to AI data and infrastructure. The planned superintelligence lab will focus on building advanced AI systems, drawing on Scale AI’s capabilities while allowing the company to remain independent.

What Meta is actually paying for

Meta’s multibillion-dollar deal with Scale AI grants it access to critical infrastructure for training and testing large language models, along with data services that support model development, The New York Times reports. This aims to boost Meta’s AI division, which has struggled to keep pace with tech rivals.

The investment amounts to roughly 10 ...