Meta beefs up disappointing AI division with $15 billion Scale AI investment
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Meta's significant investment in generative AI includes $72 billion aimed at enhancing data centers and server capabilities. CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims for the company to outperform competitors' AI models by 2025. The Llama 4 model, however, has not met expectations in independent tests. Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, reiterated the goal of surpassing human intelligence. Meanwhile, Scale AI, which specializes in data-labeling, is expected to generate substantial revenue by aiding in training large AI models used by companies like OpenAI, leading to substantial returns for early investors.
Meta has invested heavily in generative AI, focusing a majority of its planned $72 billion capital expenditure on data centers and servers to support AI training.
Despite Zuckerberg's pledge for Meta's models to surpass rivals in 2025, their recent Llama 4 release has not performed well in independent benchmarks.
Yann LeCun stated that Meta's ultimate goal is to achieve human-level intelligence and exceed it, a common ambition among AI firms.
Scale AI, focusing on data-labeling services, will generate significant revenue by supporting the training of large AI models, benefiting its early investors.
Read at Ars Technica
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