🔥 Громкая сделка: Meta вложила «значительные» инвестиции в Scale AI, подняв оценку стартапа до $29 миллиардов! Компания, которая помогает обучать ИИ разметкой данных, теперь стала одним из самых дорогих игроков на рынке. Основатель Александр Ванг уходит с поста CEO (но остаётся в совете) — интрига! 🤯 Зачем Meta это нужно? Скорее всего, для ускорения разработки своих ИИ-моделей, ведь качественные данные — это новая нефть. Фишка: Scale AI работала с OpenAI и правительством США, а теперь засветилась в лучах Meta. Что думаете — гениальный ход или переоценка? 👇
Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving | TechCrunch Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving | TechCrunch TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo Latest Startups Venture Apple Security AI Apps Events Podcasts Newsletters Search Submit Site Search Toggle Mega Menu Toggle Topics Latest AI Amazon Apps Biotech & Health Climate Cloud Computing Commerce Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech Fundraising Gadgets Gaming Google Government & Policy Hardware Instagram Layoffs Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft Privacy Robotics Security Social Space Startups TikTok Transportation Venture More from TechCrunch Events Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Newsletters Podcasts Videos Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard Contact Us Image Credits: Drew Angerer / Getty Images AI Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving Ivan Mehta 12:12 AM PDT · June 13, 2025 Data-labeling company Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a “significant” investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion. The startup also said its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang is stepping down from his role to join Meta and help the bigger company with its AI work. Reports indicate that Meta invested about $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in the startup, which produces and labels data that’s used to train the large language models that underpin a significant portion of generative AI development. Meta confirmed the investment. “Meta has finalized our strategic partnership and investment in Scale AI. As part of this, we will deepen the work we do together producing data for AI models and Alexandr Wang will join Meta to work on our superintelligence efforts. We will share more about this effort and the great people joining this team in the coming weeks,” a spokesperson for Meta told TechCrunch. Jason Droege, Scale’s current chief strategy officer, will hop in as interim CEO. Scale AI noted that Meta’s investment will be used to pay investors and shareholders, as well as to fuel growth. The company emphasized that it remains an independent entity. Wang will continue at the data-labeling firm as a director on its board. As my colleague Max Zeff wrote on Wednesday, this investment is a way for Meta to improve its AI efforts as its rivals Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic rush ahead, and the social media company’s own AI model releases trail the competition . Plus, according to data by SingalFire, the company lost 4.3% of its top talent to other AI labs last year . For the last several years, leading AI labs such as OpenAI have relied on Scale AI to produce and label data that’s used to train models. In recent months, Scale AI and its data annotation competitors have started hiring highly skilled people, such as PhD scientists and senior software engineers, to generate high-quality data for frontier AI labs. Scale AI raised $1 billion last year from investors including Amazon and Meta at a valuation of $13.8 billion. Topics AI , alexandr wang , Mark Zuckerberg , Meta , Scale AI Ivan Mehta Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. You can reach out to him at im[at]ivanmehta[dot]com View Bio July 15, 2025 Boston, MA From seed to Series C and beyond—founders and VCs of all stages are heading to Boston. Be part of the conversation. Save $200+ now and tap into powerful takeaways, peer insights, and game-changing connections. Register Now Most Popular Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet Maxwell Zeff Europe, we’re not leaving. Period. Michael Reinstein OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model Kyle Wiggers WWDC 2025: Everything announced, including Liquid Glass, Apple Intelligence updates, and more Lauren Forristal Sarah Perez Major US grocery distributor warns of disruption after cyberattack Zack Whittaker Anthropic’s AI-generated blog dies an early death Kyle Wiggers Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts Julie Bort Loading the next article Error loading the next article X LinkedIn Facebook Instagram youTube Mastodon Threads Bluesky TechCrunch Staff Contact Us Advertise Crunchboard Jobs Site Map Terms of Service Privacy Policy RSS Terms of Use Code of Conduct WWDC 2025 Whole Foods Snap AR Glasses Mistral Liquid Glass Tech Layoffs ChatGPT © 2025 TechCrunch Media LLC.
