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Perplexity AI walked away from potential Meta deal before Zuckerberg's Scale AI stake
Meta recently invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI and tried to buy another startup called Safe Superintelligence, as CNBC ...
Meta discussed buying Perplexity before Scale AI investment - Bloomberg
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) held discussions with artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI about a possible ...
Meta's Scale AI deal has clients like Google halting projects, contractors scrambling, and one investor bailing out
Google, OpenAI, and xAI halted some Scale AI projects following Meta's investment announcement, leaving contractors ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
OpenAI plans to continue working with Scale AI despite rival Meta’s $14.3 billion deal with the company, OpenAI’s CFO says
Despite the $14.3 billion investment that is shaking up the AI landscape, OpenAI's CFO says the company plans to keep working ...