According to @TheInformation, Meta has acquired a 49 percent non-voting stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion to advance its AI initiatives without triggering regulatory government review. By hiring Scale AI’s founder and CEO Alexandr Wang alongside key staff, Meta aims to rapidly scale its data-labeling capabilities, fueling the development of large-scale generative AI models for business applications. This move highlights the increasing importance of high-quality labeled data in AI model training and positions Meta to compete more aggressively in the enterprise AI solutions market (source: The Information).