Key Points
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Meta has invested $15 billion into data-labelling start-up Scale AI and hired its co-founder Alexandr Wang
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The deal values Scale at $29 billion, double its valuation last year.
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Meta will own 49 percent of Scale’s equity following the transaction.
And this is why Zukerburg is desperate...
Zuckerberg pledged last year that his company’s models would outstrip rivals’ efforts in 2025, but Meta’s most recent release, Llama 4, has underperformed on various independent reasoning and coding benchmarks.