{"id":1014898,"date":"2026-06-16T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014898"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:21:40","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-paid-14billion-for-alexandr-wangs-ai-metas-own-engineers-still-reach-for-claude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/mark-zuckerberg-paid-14billion-for-alexandr-wangs-ai-metas-own-engineers-still-reach-for-claude\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg paid $14billion for Alexandr Wang&#8217;s AI; Meta&#8217;s own engineers still reach for Claude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after Mark Zuckerberg spent more than $14 billion to bring Alexandr Wang and a team of Scale AI engineers into Meta, the social media giant has its first proprietary frontier AI model. What it does not yet have is proof that Muse Spark can close the gap on Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT, or persuade investors that the company&#8217;s aggressive AI pivot will amount to anything more than another expensive detour.<\/p>\n<p>Why Meta abandoned open source for Muse Spark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after Mark Zuckerberg spent more than $14 billion to bring Alexandr Wang and a team of Scale AI engineers into Meta, the social media giant has its first proprietary frontier AI model. What it does not yet have is proof that Muse Spark can close the gap on Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT, or persuade investors that the company&#8217;s aggressive AI pivot will amount to anything more than another expensive detour. Why Meta abandoned open source for Muse Spark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014899,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014898\/revisions\/1014899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}