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A handful of venture capital firms are set to see huge returns from their early bets on Scale AI, following Meta Platforms Inc.’s $14.3 billion mega investment in the artificial intelligence startup.
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Meta’s massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.
Akamai needed a Kubernetes automation platform that optimized the costs of running its core infrastructure in real time on several clouds.
With standard AI, we build prompts, define logic and teach the models how to behave. With agentic AI, we create systems that learn, adapt and act autonomously. These agents follow instructions and understand intent. They can analyze changes in the system, adjust automation scripts accordingly and execute tests without human intervention.
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal.