{"id":2639,"date":"2025-06-11T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/meta-scaleai-superintelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:20:00","slug":"meta-scaleai-superintelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/meta-scaleai-superintelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg’s Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy \"superintelligence group.\"<\/div>\n

Meta’s AI development isn’t going quite as well as billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. Once a frontrunner in the AI race,\u00a0a year’s worth of\u00a0technical failures<\/a>\u00a0and setbacks<\/a> to his company’s “state-of-the-art” Llama 4 Behemoth have spurred Zuckerberg to pull out all the stops.<\/p>\n

Now, the second richest man on the planet is said to be handpicking a team of some 50 AI researchers for a shadowy “superintelligence group.” To do so, he’s set aside some $15 billion for a 49 percent stake<\/a> in Scale.ai \u2014 the despotic AI startup that’s been accused of using wage-slave labor<\/a> to train chatbots, commiting systemic wage theft<\/a>, and is contracted to run the Pentagon’s “flagship” weapons automation program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg’s goal, according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>, is to be the first to develop the first AI system that exceeds the abilities of the human brain \u2014 a dream,\u00a0it’s worth noting, which the majority of AI researchers<\/a> still think is “very unlikely.”<\/p>\n

Scale.ai is probably the biggest player in the data labeling game<\/a>, hiring\u00a0third world laborers to do the laborious task of writing, scraping, and cataloguing data for companies to train their AI systems. It’ll be in good company at Zuckerberg’s operation; Meta was recently caught scraping over seven million<\/a> copyrighted books to feed Llama, leading to a major class action lawsuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan,” wrote tech critic Ed Zitron<\/a>, referring to the post-WWII scheme that made the US the global dynasty<\/a> it is today. “[Meta’s] running out of training data (if they haven\u2019t already) and all they have left is one company that generates it using sweat shop labor. Gotta wonder why this much money too.”<\/p>\n

Per Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, the “superintelligence” initiative is Meta’s largest external investment to date. As part of the investment, Scale.ai co-founder Alexandr Wang is set to join Zuckerberg’s secret society of AI developers. The Meta CEO even rearranged the desks so that his new team could “sit near him,” according to reporting.<\/p>\n

As part of his shadow cabal recruitment drive, Zuckerberg highlighted Meta’s ad-based revenue stream<\/a>, suggesting that AI developers would be free from investor scrutiny if they came to work for him, according to Bloomberg<\/em>. The CEO also stressed that he had enough cash tucked away to erect a “multi-gigawatt data center,” which if ever realized be among the most powerful in the world. (For context, it currently costs about $30 billion<\/a> for a one-gigawatt data center, which is about the amount it takes to power 750,000 homes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

It’s not currently known who else will be joining Meta’s AI scrum \u2014 though the company is reportedly offering potential recruits anywhere from seven to nine figures to join. If Wang is any indication, Zuckerberg’s desk is sure to be flanked by a league of headline-grabbing tech personalities.<\/p>\n

Breathlessly described<\/a> as the “world’s youngest self-made billionaire” \u2014 as if any billionaire is self-made<\/a> \u2014 Wang has become a darling of the US defense industry as of late. A notorious China hawk, Wang’s cozy deals with the Pentagon come alongside drastic escalations<\/a> in anti-China rhetoric, declaring an all-out “AI war” with the nation.<\/p>\n

He’ll be a major asset for Zuckerberg, whose own collaboration with the US military apparatus are well known, and ramping up<\/a> in recent months. The tech billionaire has previously given the federal government carte blanche<\/a> to spy on US citizens through data scraped from Facebook. He eventually went on to become an outspoken champion of free speech<\/a>, even as he helped build a “clean” global internet closed off to Chinese\u00a0<\/strong>nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even if his “superintelligence” scheme doesn’t work out \u2014\u00a0remember the metaverse, a scheme he was so obsessed with that he renamed the entire company<\/a>? \u2014\u00a0Zuckerberg should have more than enough dough serving up brainrot to the elderly<\/a>.\u00a0There’s always money in the banana stand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More on Meta: <\/strong>Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Zuckerberg’s Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta’s AI development isn’t going quite as well as billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. Once a frontrunner in the AI race,\u00a0a year’s worth of\u00a0technical failures\u00a0and setbacks to his company’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1572,189,1573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-investments","category-meta","category-scale-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}