Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, photo: Rokas Tenys, Dreamstime.com
Alexandr Wang's name is probably unknown in the business world, but Mark Zuckerberg spent $ 15 billion for this 28 -year -old.
Wang is the CEO of Scale AI, a data company that collaborates with giants in the field of artificial technology and intelligence such as Meta and Openai.
Meta just spent about $ 15 billion to buy 49% of AI scales.
“Meta has completed our strategic partnership and investment in Scale AI. As part of this process, we will deepen the collaboration in data generation for artificial intelligence models, and Alexandr Wang will join the Meta to work on our superintelligence efforts,” Zuckerberg's company said in a statement, quoted by Money Review.
What does the meta of this investment win, which evaluates the scales at almost $ 30 billion, about double a year ago?
In theory, this money allows Meta to strengthen her relationship with an important company for her artificial intelligence ambitions. In practice, this money “buys” on Wang and maybe even some of its partners, notes Business Insider.
“This is a very expensive purchase,” writes the technological analyst Ben Thompson.
The so-called “acquisitions” are common in the technological industry. Usually, a small startup is sold to a larger player, who is often more interested in the company's employees than in the business itself. Usually, the purchased company ceases to produce what they were trying to sell once the transaction is completed.
Last year, for example, Microsoft paid $ 650 million to the artificial intelligence startup. Officially, this was the price for licensing the intellectual property, but in practice, Microsoft paid this amount to hire the founder of Inflection, Mustafa Suleyman, and a few members of his team.
Google has paid $ 2.7 billion for an agreement with a structure similar to Character.
Now, when Zuckerberg is preparing to bring Wang to a new artificial intelligence laboratory he builds, equipped with renowned researchers, some warn that his previous efforts to bring high profile talents have not done well. Instagram and WhatsApp co -founders left the company, despite the fact that Zuckerberg spent billions for them. In fact, the Instagram co -founder, Mike Krieger, is now a Meta competitor, being a product director at Anthropic.
