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Scale AI not ‘winding down' following Meta deal, interim CEO tells employees and customers
Scale AI’s interim CEO Jason Droege told employees that the AI company is not ‘winding down’ following the $14.3 billion ...
OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal
OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief ...
Self-made billionaire college dropout Alexandr Wang signs $14.3 billion deal to bolster Meta’s AI efforts: ‘There’s a huge premium to naivete’
Alexandr Wang, once the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, has agreed to join Meta to work on AI “superintelligence ...
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Scale AI's Wang Joins Meta, Brings Deep Industry Connections
Bloomberg's Ellen Huet discusses how Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang became so well connected within Silicon Valley, and ...
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Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
Meet Alexandr Wang, Meta $15 billion bet to catch up in global AI race
Meta is bringing on Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang in a deal worth up to $15 billion to lead a new superintelligence lab and ...
Alexandr Wang educational qualifications: How an MIT dropout built a $29 billion AI empire
Alexandr Wang, son of nuclear physicists, dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale AI, a company providing crucial data for AI ...
Meta officially ‘acqui-hires’ Scale AI — will it draw regulator scrutiny?
The social media giant is getting CEO Alexandr Wang in a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, as it plans to build out ...