Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, arrives for a gathering with worldwide traders in IA on the Elysee Palace as a part of the Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Motion Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 2025.
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Meta is forming a brand new artificial intelligence analysis lab and bringing on Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of the startup Scale AI, in accordance with The New York Instances.
The analysis lab goes to pursue an idea often called “superintelligence,” which is an AI system that surpasses human intelligence, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Meta can also be in superior talks to take a position greater than $10 billion in Scale AI, in accordance with a report from Bloomberg.
Scale AI declined to remark. Meta didn’t reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
The reported analysis lab is Meta’s popup effort to realize an edge within the fiercely aggressive AI growth area. Meta has been pouring billions of {dollars} into the know-how, saying plans to spend as a lot as $65 billion in capital expenditures for AI infrastructure this yr.
Late final month, Meta introduced that its AI assistant helps one billion month-to-month lively customers throughout the corporate’s household of apps. In February, CNBC reported that Meta was planning to debut a stand-alone Meta AI app in the course of the second quarter and check a paid-subscription service akin to rival chat apps akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Shares of Meta have been up about 1% on Tuesday.
Learn the New York Instances story here.
–CNBC’s Jonathan Vanian contributed to this report
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