Meta is making an investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting Chief Executive Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.

The tech giant is recruiting engineers to develop a technology that would transcend normal human intelligence.

Tech giant Meta is investing more than $14 billion to acquire a 49% stake in artificial intelligence firm Scale AI, the San Francisco-based company's CEO confirmed on X.

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Kenya is known as the Silicon Savannah, the critical link in the AI supply chain. That chain begins with tech companies including the big players - Meta, OpenAI, Google and Amazon, who need a lot of human sourced images and information to train their artificial intelligence.

The new open-source model, called Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture 2, or V-JEPA 2, is designed to help artificial intelligence understand things like gravity and object permanence, Meta said.

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to scale up the company’s artificial-intelligence ambitions took their latest step forward with an investment in ScaleAI and the poaching of the the data-labeling AI startup’s founder.