Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

Meta is launching a new lab to pursue 'superintelligence' and is in talks for a multi-billion dollar deal with Scale AI, a dramatic move to counter a recent talent exodus, model delays, and intense competition from its Big Tech rivals.