It was previously reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckberg was recruiting experts to develop super artificial intelligence. There was also news that Mark Zuckberg had invited Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang to join his team and that Meta would invest in Scale AI founded by Alexandr Wang.Has been completedInvested $143 billion in Scale AI, increasing its market value to $290 billion, but on the condition that founder Wang Tao join the Meta team.
Wang Tao also confirmed this in a subsequent statement, and said that he would take several Scale AI members to join the Meta AI team, while also retaining his personal position on the Scale AI board of directors. As for Scale AI's CEO, it will be taken over by the current Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege.
However, Meta has not yet announced Wang Tao's next specific position, but he is expected to lead Meta's recently established Superintelligence lab.
As for the $149 billion investment in Scale AI, it will be Meta's second largest investment after the $2014 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in 190. Meta will hold about 49% of Scale AI's shares, but will not have operational control. It is said that the 49% stake was chosen to avoid being targeted by regulators. After all, the previous acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were accused of market monopoly by the US Federal Trade Commission.
Meta has faced a lot of negative criticism due to the fact that the performance of Meta's recently launched Llama 4 large-scale natural language model was not as good as expected, and it even delayed the launch of its large-scale artificial intelligence model with a super-large parameter scale code-named "Behemoth". As a result, Mark Zuckberg decided to personally supervise the talent recruitment operation, hoping to turn the situation around in the development of artificial intelligence technology.
Meta hopes to achieve the development of general artificial intelligence (AGI) technology, so that artificial intelligence can have the same thinking ability as humans and can assist humans in completing various tasks. As for the super artificial intelligence that Meta currently hopes to create, it will further surpass the thinking ability of the human brain and promote the development and growth of more technologies.
My note to Scale employees today— pic.twitter.com/JKi35Yhvi1
— Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) June 13, 2025
