Meta’s $14.3B Scale AI Bet Unravels Amid Exec Exodus and Data Quality Woes
Two months after Meta’s $14.3B bet on Scale AI and hiring Alexandr Wang, the partnership is fraying. Executives brought over have already left, TBD Labs is using rival data vendors (Mercor, Surge) amid complaints that Scale’s data is low quality, and major customers like OpenAI and Google cut ties with Scale. Scale has since laid off staff, while Meta grapples with internal churn as it rushes to compete with OpenAI and Google.
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