{"id":938743,"date":"2025-06-16T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938743"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:03:36","slug":"metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-latest-test-of-ai-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/16\/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-latest-test-of-ai-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s $14.8 billion Scale AI deal latest test of AI partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook owner Meta&#8217;s $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI and hiring of the data-labeling startup&#8217;s CEO will test how the Trump administration views so-called acquihire deals, which some have criticized as an attempt to evade regulatory scrutiny. The deal, announced on Thursday, was Meta&#8217;s second-largest investment to date. It gives the owner of Facebook a 49% nonvoting stake in Scale AI, which uses gig workers to manually label data and includes among its customers Meta competitors Microsoft and ChatGPT creator OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook owner Meta&#8217;s $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI and hiring of the data-labeling startup&#8217;s CEO will test how the Trump administration views so-called acquihire deals, which some have criticized as an attempt to evade regulatory scrutiny. The deal, announced on Thursday, was Meta&#8217;s second-largest investment to date. It gives the owner of Facebook a 49% nonvoting stake in Scale AI, which uses gig workers to manually label data and includes among its customers Meta competitors Microsoft and ChatGPT creator OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938743","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}