Google is reportedly ending its relationship with Scale AI due to Meta's acquisition of a significant stake, raising concerns about potential exposure of proprietary AI research. Other major tech companies like Microsoft and xAI are also distancing themselves from Scale AI,

Google, Scale AI's biggest client, intends to shift its $200 million workload for human-labeled training data to rival companies following the Meta deal.

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Scale AI built its business on the labor of gig workers. But those workers likely won't benefit from their new deal with Meta.

Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.

As part of the deal, Scale AI’s CEO, Wang, will take a top position leading Meta’s AI efforts. Meta is fighting the perception that it may have fallen behind in the AI race after its initial set of Llama 4 large language models released in April fell short of performance expectations.