Meta's $14 billion AI bet on Alexandr Wang yields mixed results as company trails competitors
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Jonathan Vanian, Julia Boorstin
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A year after Meta spent over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team to revamp its AI strategy, the company has made some progress but remains far behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Wang's key achievement was delivering the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta's first move into proprietary foundation models and away from its strict open-source approach. The Meta Superintelligence Labs group was created to lead these efforts, but results so far have been underwhelming according to the article.
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Meta is at least back on the map in AI, though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market
The group Wang leads — Meta Superintelligence Labs — was established to give the company some
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