Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.

Alexandr Wang, once the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, has agreed to join Meta to work on AI “superintelligence,” leaving the startup that made him rich after dropping out of MIT. Alexandr Wang’s Scale AI just inked a $14.

Facebook owner Meta's $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI and hiring of the data-labeling startup's CEO will test how the Trump administration views so-called acquihire deals, which some have criticized as an attempt to evade regulatory scrutiny.

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 Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to scale up the company’s artificial-intelligence ambitions took their latest step forward with an investment in ScaleAI and the poaching of the the data-labeling AI startup’s founder.

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.

According to a report by The Information, the deal would give Meta a 49% stake in Scale AI in its largest external investment to date.

Social media titan Meta Platforms (META) is back in the headlines, all thanks to its rapidly expanding ambitions in the world of artificial Intelligence (AI). Reports claim that Meta is closing in on a massive investment,