OpenAI plans to continue working with Scale AI after rival Meta on Friday agreed to take a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence startup for $14.8 billion, OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar told the VivaTech conference in Paris.

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.

Here’s what you need to know about the deal, what its implications may be, and why Wang is of such interest to Zuckerberg’s sprawling digital content company. Wang dropped out of MIT in his freshman year to co-found Scale with social media influencer and engineer Lucy Guo.