Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts.

Meta eyes a $10 billion deal with Scale AI, signaling a stronger push for A.I. research and innovation, with potential shifts in the tech industry’s power dynamics.

Alexandr Wang co-founded Scale AI at 19. Thanks to the rapid growth of the San Francisco data-labeling company, he was a billionaire at 24. Now 28, he’s a controversial figure, facing wage theft lawsuits from workers and pontificating in Washington about the existential stakes of artificial intelligence.

But plenty of AI obsessives immediately noticed one shocking benchmark result Meta highlighted in its post. Maverick had an ELO score of 1417 in LMArena. LMArena is an open-source collaborative ...

EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

primarily from Meta. The rival company’s own efforts with AI and its ongoing collaboration with EssilorLuxottica have already given rise to what are the most prevalent and high-profile smart ...