Meta Drops $14.3 Billion on Scale AI to Fuel Its AGI Dream

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Written by Aaron S.,

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Last Updated: June 13, 2025

Key Takeaways

Meta invested $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, which valued the data-labeling firm at over $29 billion;
Founder Alexandr Wang will leave the CEO role to lead a new AGI-focused research group at Meta;
Scale AI remains independent, which helps Meta enhance its AI training while navigating regulatory hurdles.

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Meta has invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI, a company that provides labeled data used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

This deal, announced on June 12, gives Meta a 49% ownership stake in Scale AI and values the company at more than $29 billion.

Rather than buying the company outright, Meta chose to become a large minority investor, which helps Scale AI remain independent and may reduce the risk of increased scrutiny from regulators.

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Scale AI works by hiring people, many of them based outside the US, to tag and sort data that trains AI systems. Its clients include tech companies like Google and OpenAI. These data-labeling tasks help AI models learn how to understand and respond to the world.

Meta has said the partnership will strengthen its own efforts to build better AI by improving how it produces and uses this kind of training data.

Alexandr Wang, the 27-year-old founder of Scale AI, shared in a June 13 post on X that he will step down from his CEO role to launch a new research group within Meta focused on developing "superintelligence", or artificial general intelligence (AGI).

He will remain on Scale AI’s board of directors. In the meantime, the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, Jason Droege, will take over as interim CEO.

Wang told Scale employees that the investment was a major milestone for the company and a sign of how far their work has come.

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