Meta Platforms, Inc.s accelerates its AI strategy with a $14.3B Scale AI investment. Click for META's long-term potential and overlooked risks shaping the market.

Meta’s investment is the latest attempt by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to give his $1.8 trillion social media company an edge in the race to develop more powerful AI models. Zuckerberg has been trying to poach top researchers and engineers from rival groups as he seeks to build out a new “superintelligence” team.

The investment by Meta for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI comes as the company is also developing what it calls “superintelligence.”