OpenAI disconnects from Scale AI collaboration! Meta spends money to poach talent, causing a stir, and Google is also rumored to cut ties.

Scale AI, a well-known AI training data supplier for tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Meta, was recently acquired by Meta for $14.3 billion, taking nearly 49% of its shares and poaching founder Alexandr Wang into its own AI super intelligence team. Following this, OpenAI announced a "complete termination" of its collaboration with Scale AI, and it is rumored that Google is also considering cutting ties.

Meta pumps $14.3 billion to invest in Scale AI, acquiring the founder to join its own team.

According to reports, Meta previously announced an investment of $14.3 billion in Scale AI and an acquisition of 49% equity, while inviting founder Alexandr Wang to join Meta's newly established "Superintelligence" (Superintelligence) department.

The department's goal is to develop more powerful AI software that is still in the conceptual stage. It is reported that more Scale AI employees will also switch to Meta in the future.

OpenAI is highly vigilant towards Meta's actions, and it is rumored that Google is also preparing to sever ties.

Scale originally served well-known technology companies such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI, but Meta's recent substantial investment has drawn attention from the outside world. Some people are concerned that Meta may use this to gain insight into the research and development dynamics of its competitors in the future.

According to reports, Google also plans to terminate its collaboration with Scale AI, but has not yet responded publicly.

OpenAI expresses indifference to the overall situation.

Shortly after Meta and Scale AI announced their collaboration, OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar also stated at the VivaTech conference held in Paris:

"We do not want the entire AI ecosystem to come to a halt due to the acquisition."

But a few days later, OpenAI announced the gradual termination of its collaboration with Scale AI, officially cutting ties.

Previously entered into the termination of cooperation process, as the demand has exceeded the capabilities of Scale AI.

OpenAI stated that the cessation of cooperation with Scale AI is not simply due to Meta's investment, but that both parties had already entered into the termination process over the past 6 to 12 months.

The reason is that the AI models trained by OpenAI are becoming increasingly complex, moving towards AI agent systems that have "human reasoning abilities" and can "execute tasks autonomously." Therefore, more specialized and customized data is needed to support this, which has exceeded the capabilities of Scale AI.

Founded in 2016, Scale AI initially relied on a large workforce to help annotate images and text to support the early training of AI. In recent years, Scale AI has also continuously upgraded, hiring annotators with higher educational backgrounds such as PhDs and nurses to assist in the development process of more advanced models. Nevertheless, Scale AI's services are still insufficient to meet the development needs of the next generation of AI models.

OpenAI turns to emerging data provider Mercor

Currently, OpenAI has turned to other data suppliers, such as the startup team Mercor, which focuses on using AI to assist technology companies in talent recruitment and has transformed into a data expert matchmaking platform, helping AI companies find suitable domain specialists to advance the development of the next generation of AI models.

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This article reports that OpenAI has cut ties with Scale AI! Meta is spending big to poach talent, causing a stir, and there are also rumors that Google will make cuts. This was first reported by Chain News ABMedia.