AIster · The agentic age · M&A & deals
Meta buys into Scale AI and forms Superintelligence Labs
Meta spent billions on data and people to regroup its AI effort
Key facts
- Date
- 12–30 Jun 2025
- Era
- The agentic age
- Interest
- M&A & deals
- Threads
- Labs & people
- Deal
- About $14.3bn for 49% of Scale AI (12 Jun 2025)
- New unit
- Meta Superintelligence Labs (30 Jun 2025)
- Leaders
- Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer, with Nat Friedman
In June 2025 Meta invested about $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, valuing it at $29 billion, and hired its chief executive Alexandr Wang. On 30 June Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Wang as chief AI officer with Nat Friedman. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman had said Meta was offering OpenAI researchers signing bonuses as high as $100 million, but Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told staff the offers were not sign-on bonuses.
Sources
- Scale AI, Scale AI Announces Next Phase of Company's Evolution, 2025-06-12
- TechCrunch, Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving, 2025-06-13
- CNBC, Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo, 2025-06-30
- TechCrunch, Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’, 2025-06-27