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Game of Kings. Hi everyone. Thanks to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the price to compete in the AI arms race has just gone up this week. Way up.
Zuckerberg has pushed back against reports of compensation packages being the primary reason for top AI researchers joining the tech giant.
Scale AI said it’s cutting 14% of its staff weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion in the startup and hired a number of top staffers.
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Following Meta's strategic investment, Scale AI is laying off 14% of its workforce.
For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.
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Last month, the social media giant invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI ( SCAI.PVT) and brought on its CEO, Alexandr Wang, and hired former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross. The company also poached Apple's head of AI foundation models, Ruoming Pang, according to Bloomberg.
Box CEO Aaron Levie said AI-fluent graduates are uniquely positioned to boost companies' productivity and outpace peers.
OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will reportedly join Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, might also join Meta, as the company works to catch up to rivals in the AGI race.