Meta distress approached the AI ​​massive scale

Meta approach Artificial intelligence In terms of launching, after all, before investing $ 14.3 million ScalesCNBC confirmed Friday.

Both companies did not end the agreement, according to two people who did not appoint the confidential nature of negotiations.

A person who knows the talks was “dissolved” that a “dissolved” person said another person who knows the perplexity fitted from a potential deal.

Bloomberg Formerly reported lectures between meta and perplexity. Perplexity refused to comment. The META did not respond immediately to the CNBC’s comment request.

Meta is worth the attempt to buy perplexity as final example Mark Zuckerbergaggressive impetus to promote his business A- Openai and Google’s hard competition efforts Alphabet. Zuckerberg promotes that rivals like Openai are before the AI ​​models and consumers are before the applications faced, and it will be extreme length to hire ai talent, reporting CNBC before.

Meta has a 49% participation now Climb After the investment of the multibilion dollar, even the social network company will have no voting. Scale AI creator Alexandr WangAlong with other scale staff, he will make a metal as part of the agreement.

This year earlier, Meta also tried to get a safe superintelligency, this was down In April, $ 32 million is validated in a fundraising round, as he reported on the CNBC on Thursday.

Daniel Gross, General Manager of Surface Superintelligence and GitHub General Nat Friedman are meeting META’s AI efforts, where they will work on the products under Wang. Gross has a venture capital with the name Friedman NfdgTheir initial combined and META will get stake in the company.

Openai CEO Sam Altman said in the last section “Without shape“Podcasts hosted by his brother, that meta Try to rape Openai staff offering a signature bonuses with greater subsidy packages with more than $ 100 million.

“I think that Meta is our biggest competitor,” Altman said in Podcast. “The current AI efforts are not worked and hopefully that they are aggressive and continue to test new things.”

–Cnbc’s Kate Rooney contributed to this report

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