Here’s what Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang knows that Meta doesn’t.

Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang is such an enthusiastic networker that his former roommate — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman — once jokingly told him to tone it down a bit.

Meta’s massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.

Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

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

Google has unveiled its Safety Charter in India, which will expand its AI-led developments for fraud detection and combating scams across the country.

With standard AI, we build prompts, define logic and teach the models how to behave. With agentic AI, we create systems that learn, adapt and act autonomously. These agents follow instructions and understand intent. They can analyze changes in the system, adjust automation scripts accordingly and execute tests without human intervention.

The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal.