Meta forming new AI lab helmed by Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, report says

Meta forming new AI lab helmed by Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, report says


Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, arrives for a meeting with international investors in IA at the Elysee Palace as part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 2025. 

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Meta is forming a new artificial intelligence research lab and bringing on Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of the startup Scale AI, according to The New York Times.

The research lab is going to pursue a concept known as “superintelligence,” which is an AI system that surpasses human intelligence, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Meta is also in advanced talks to invest more than $10 billion in Scale AI, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Scale AI declined to comment. Meta did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

The reported research lab is Meta’s latest effort to gain an edge in the fiercely competitive AI development space. Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into the technology, announcing plans to spend as much as $65 billion in capital expenditures for AI infrastructure this year. 

Late last month, Meta announced that its AI assistant supports one billion monthly active users across the company’s family of apps. In February, CNBC reported that Meta was planning to debut a stand-alone Meta AI app during the second quarter and test a paid-subscription service akin to rival chat apps such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Shares of Meta were up about 1% on Tuesday.

Read the New York Times story here.

–CNBC’s Jonathan Vanian contributed to this report

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