Mark Zuckerberg's biggest bet on Meta AI will ride on the back of a fellow dropout who has dazzled Silicon Valley over the last decade.

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It’s easily the most expensive hire of all time, dwarfing the billions that Google spent to rehire Noam Shazeer and his core team from Character.AI (a deal Zuckerberg passed on). “Opportunities of this magnitude often come at a cost,” Wang wrote in his note to employees this week. “In this instance, that cost is my departure.”

Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to invest billions of dollars into the artificial intelligence data labeling startup Scale AI Inc. The company is holding talks over a funding deal that could see it inject more than $10 billion into the startup, though the terms have not yet been agreed and could still change, anonymous sources told Bloomberg today.