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 is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

Meta’s investment is the latest attempt by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to give his $1.8 trillion social media company an edge in the race to develop more powerful AI models. Zuckerberg has been trying to poach top researchers and engineers from rival groups as he seeks to build out a new “superintelligence” team.

The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal.

Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

At Cannes Lions 2025, Meta unveiled 11 new AI features and confirmed a $14bn investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, appointing CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its new “superintelligence” unit.

Meta has finalized its $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. As part of the deal, Scale AI's founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will be joining Meta and will reportedly lead its new "Superintelligence lab.

Meta is investing $15 billion into Scale, and will hire its CEO Alexandr Wang and key staff for a new 'superintelligence' AI division in Meta. Wang will remain on Scale AI's board, with the company set to “substantially expand” its commercial relationship with Meta “to accelerate deployment of Scale’s data solutions.”

Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.

Meta Platform Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to shape up the company’s artificial-intelligence ambitions took a step forward with an investment in ScaleAI and the poaching of its founder. Meta’s investment values the data-labeling AI startup at over $29 billion,