Meta Will weigh an investment of several billion dollars in the startup of artificial intelligence (IA) AI scale.
The technology giant is in talks with Scale IA of an investment that could exceed $ 10 billion, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (June 8), citing sources familiar with the question.
AI scale, which counts Microsoft And OPENAI Among its customers, offers data labeling services to help companies train automatic learning models. As Bloomberg noted, the startup was a crucial beneficiary of the arrow generating AI, evaluated at $ 13.8 billion Following a financing round in the spring of 2024. Meta was one of the investors of this round, which raised $ 1 billion.
Pymnts contacted both Meta and Scale IA for comments, but has not yet received an answer.
According to Bloomberg, the investment would mark the most important external expenditure of Meta on AI, a rare decision for a company that has largely depended on internal research.
At the same time, the giants of Rivaux technology have spent a lot on the AI, from Microsoft $ 13 more than a billion investment at OPENAI at Google And Amazon push back competing startup Anthropic.
The report also noted that the meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg has made AI the main priority of the company, announcing plans in January spend up to $ 65 billion On related projects this year. Meta also aims to make its AI Llama model the world standard of industry, added the report, because its chatbot is used by 1 billion people per month on its social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.
The news is following the reports of last month that Meta was reorganization His generative team of artificial intelligence to accelerate deployments of products and features. This decision, which consists in dividing the team into two groups, is designed to rationalize operations and clarify roles, thus improving the competitive advantage of the company in the rapidly evolving AI industry, Meta said in an internal memo quoted in media reports.
In other AI news, Pymnts have recently written about how small and medium -sized enterprises (SME) adopt artificial intelligence at compete with large companies.
“By automating the processes, by increasing talents and accelerating decision -making, AI allows small businesses to bypass inherited systems and jump directly into an A -Si -STS business model – the one that can compete with what large holders offer”, according to this report.
This report follows the publication of new data from Verizon Business’ 2025 State of Small Business Survey, showing that 38% of SMEs integrate AI into operations. In addition, 28% of SMEs said they deploy AI for marketing and social media, while 24% to use For written communications.
