This is a weird deal? Meta buys a non-controlling stake and says no customers will be affected but the CEO and others are leaving Scale for Meta. Meta also says they won’t have access to competitor data but at 49% ownership they get major investor rights? Sounds like an acqui-kill to me?
Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
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#12This is a weird deal? Meta buys a non-controlling stake and says no customers will be affected but the CEO and others are leaving Scale for Meta. Meta also says they won’t have access to competitor data but at 49% ownership they get major investor rights? Sounds like an acqui-kill to me?
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#13These numbers are absurd
Like, at some point the end product needs to be a literal genie's lamp or fountain of youth.
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#14Gavin Belson would be proud. Or at least steal the quote; same thing, really.
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#15Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
#16These numbers are absurd
Yeah, half of my AI skepticism isn't that the tools don't work. It's that I'm having a tough time figuring out how these things are ever going to produce ROI. Like, at some point the end product needs to be a literal genie's lamp or fountain of youth.
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#17https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fame-feud-and-fortun...
Edit (as per wikipedia):
"Lucy Guo was fired two years later in 2018." She was a co-founder.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, half of my AI skepticism isn't that the tools don't work. It's that I'm having a tough time figuring out how these things are ever going to produce ROI. Like, at some point the end product needs to be a literal genie's lamp or fountain of youth.
Scale AI has deep cooperation with military agencies and a fresh large contract with the Gulf state with the largest US military presence. It's likely they're building a new generation of combat command systems and the like, consolidation of surveillance and management tooling in the ongoing and future US wars isn't surprising.
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#20These numbers are absurd