Meta’s reportedly looking to expand its artifical intelligence infrastructure even further, by investing in AI startup Scale AI, which specializes in data labeling to facilitate AI model expansion.
According to Bloomberg, Meta is in advanced talks to potentially invest up to $10 billion into the company, which Meta already works with as part of its expanded AI development.
Originally founded in 2016, Scale AI has become a key provider of qualified data, which can help to improve AI system training significantly.
Scale AI ensures that data sources are accurately labeled and annotated, essentially making sense of data input streams in order to improve the training process. According to research, this can significantly reduce AI training time, by feeding more valuable data sources to AI companies, reducing manual load on their part.
And as noted, Scale AI already works with several major AI projects, including OpenAI and Meta, to assist in their current AI training process. Meta previously invested $1 billion in Scale’s Series F funding round.
An expanded partnership could give Zuck and Co. a significant advantage, by ensuring that it has exclusive access to Scale’s evolving data classification tools, which could help to improve Meta’s AI models significantl