In June, he invested 14.3 billion dollars in Scale AI and for the walked signed his CEO, Alexandr Wang. He made him an owner and lord of his brand new Superintelligence Division, in addition to surrounding him with a team of engineers With salaries of elite athletes. The movements have been so exaggerated and convulsive that they are having important side effects.
The 100 million club. Mark Zuckerberg He shook the foundations of the AI industry in early June, when he began to rob their rivals the best AI engineers. He offered them Salaries of hundreds of millions of dollars And soon companies like OpenAi confirmed that Someone had “cast at home”. The signings of high -level managers, such as Nat Friedman (Exceo de Github) or Daniel Gross (co -founder of Safe Superintelligence with Ilya Sutskever) confirmed that series of unusual movements.
Sudden resignations. Among the signings was Ruben Mayer, who had already worked with Wang in Scale AI. Two months later Mayer has left the company, According to nearby sources. The executive worked five years in Scale AI, but soon discovered that he was going to work in an area outside the development unit of the Superintelligence Model. He has claimed that he was “very happy” with his experience in goal, but has decided to leave the company “for a personal matter.” He has not been the only one to take that step.
The two “Goals”. That resignation is joined by others that occurred in recent weeks. According to Wiredat least three researchers have abandoned the company. Two of them returned to Openai, where they had previously worked, while the third, Rishabh Agawal, has not made clear Your destiny. The huge changes that the team has undergone has made adaptation to the new situation difficult. The two “goals” – before the signings and the one now – are having problems to get perfectly. But there is even more.
Scale Ai Flaquea. The team that is working on the development of the superintelligence, called TBD Labs, is in turn collaborating with data labeling companies such as Mercor and arises, which are in turn competing of Scale AI. It is something strange considering that goal had already invested billions of dollars in it – although there was no talk In that agreement of exclusivities—, but sources close to the company indicate In TechCrunch That the quality of Scale AI labeling is low and prefer to work with these two firms.
The situation of the company co -founded by Wang has changed. After the agreement with Meta, both Openai and Google indicated that they would stop working with her. Shortly after Scale ai He said goodbye 200 of its employees, although the new CEO, Jason Droge said they would compensate with hiring in other areas of the company.
Much mess and a restructuring. Having signed all that talent has its good part, but it also has can complicate the goal organization chart. It is what seems to have happened according to all these data, and in fact target announced internally A restructuring of all that division. Four different subdivisions have been created, which will be led by Wang. Other senior managers will report to it, but those movements also caused some finishing employees before the “galactic signings” have ended up leaving the company to go to firms such as OpenAi, Cohere or Figma.
Of the open to a closed model. The arrival of Wang has coincided with an apparent change of approach, they pointed out In nyt. Although goal was a pioneer to bet on ia open source models as callthe company seems to be exploring now other possibilities. For example, those of using third -party AI models on their platforms —Chatgpt in WhatsApp? – or even license “closed” models of other companies. But beyond that, the company is valuing to work In a closed model as their main rivals are doing in the AI segment in the US. OpenAi, Google or Anthropic precisely adopted that strategy from the beginning, and it seems that in the finish line they want to have their own alternative.
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