Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) shares are trading higher Monday after the company announced that WhatsApp will show adds and offer paid subscriptions for the first time.

Meta Platforms Inc. has finalized a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI and recruited the startup’s chief executive officer to join its artificial intelligence efforts — an unusual deal that signals a heightened push by the social media giant to catch up on AI development.

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.

Meta's AI research head, Joelle Pineau, is departing as the company makes major AI investments. Pineau's exit may complicate Meta's ability to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Meta aims to ...

Meta is planning a huge step-up in its AI investments this year. Ahead of the company's fourth-quarter earnings report in January, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook about plans for the ...