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Mark Zuckerberg is set to announce that Meta will be purchasing a 49% stake in Scale AI, a startup that specialises in data labelling and model evaluation. It is part of Meta’s plan to achieve ‘computerised superintelligence.’
Meta is looking to invest heavily into new AI applications.
According to multiple reports, CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks set to announce a $15 billion USD investment in Scale AI, a startup that provides data labelling and model evaluation for third-party AI application. Meta will take a 49% stake in the company.
The move is part of a wider race in Silicon Valley to dominate the AI market, with many tech firms tripping over one another to be the first out of the gate for new features, implementations, and software improvements.
In fact, experts say the latest goal is to achieve ‘computerised superintelligence,’ with Meta keen to be an industry leader. Superintelligence is dubbed as an advanced AI model that is superior to human skillsets in all tasks.
Currently, AI models are not able to surpass human work in quite a few areas. As The Guardian reports, mainstream products like ChatGPT collapse when faced with particularly complicated prompts or puzzles, making results inaccurate and unreliable.
Meta’s big investment in Scale AI may be an attempt to cut ahead of competition and come out on top, particularly as the company’s Metaverse investment was a massive public failure.
The AI race is notoriously tough, with big-hitters like Google and OpenAI constantly revising their products and improving their models.
Chinese competitor DeepSeek made waves early this year for launching an AI prompt application at a fraction of the cost of Western versions, sending the market into freefall.
There is now renewed urgency over the transparency and legality of AI implementation across most work forces, as worries steadily rise over the potential loss of entry-level jobs and human skillsets.
