Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company

Meta's AI development isn't going quite as well as billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. Once a frontrunner in the AI race, a year's worth of technical failures and setbacks to his company's "state-of-the-art" Llama 4 Behemoth have spurred Zuckerberg to pull out all the stops.

Now, the second richest man on the planet is said to be handpicking a team of some 50 AI researchers for a shadowy "superintelligence group." To do so, he's set aside some $15 billion for a 49 percent stake in Scale.ai — the despotic AI startup that's been accused of using wage-slave labor to train chatbots, commiting systemic wage theft, and is contracted to run the Pentagon's "flagship" weapons automation program.

Zuckerberg's goal, according to the New York Times, is to be the first to develop the first AI system that exceeds the abilities of the human brain — a dream, it's worth noting, which the majority of AI researchers still think is "v

Minas Marios Kontis

Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and host of AI Greece Podcast. Founder & CEO of Univation, empowering 35,000+ students across 40+ universities with AI-driven education. Started coding at 12 with a 100k+ download transportation app.