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Company
Meta
Open-weights standard-bearer turned superintelligence spender.
Meta's Llama releases made open weights a mainstream strategy and seeded a global developer ecosystem. In 2025 Mark Zuckerberg reorganized the effort into Meta Superintelligence Labs, hiring Scale AI's Alexandr Wang via a $14.3B stake, paying reported nine-figure packages, and pointed capex ($70B+ in 2025) at the Prometheus and Hyperion mega-campuses, with…
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Scale AI
The data-labeling giant Meta bought half of for $14.3B.
Scale built the human-feedback and data-annotation pipelines behind most frontier labs' post-training, until Meta's 2025 purchase of a 49% stake (and of CEO Alexandr Wang's time) pushed rival labs toward competitors like Surge. Its story is the clearest evidence that training data is strategic infrastructure.
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Person
Alexandr Wang
Scale AI's founder, now leading Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Wang built Scale AI into the labeling backbone of frontier post-training, became tech's youngest self-made billionaire, and in 2025 moved to Meta as chief AI officer when it bought 49% of Scale for $14.3B, the deal that proved data operations are strategic infrastructure.
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