Meta Weighs Multi-Billion-Dollar Investment in Scale AI

Meta Platforms is in negotiations to pump more than $10 billion into Scale AI, the data-labeling startup behind Microsoft and OpenAI training pipelines. Scale AI’s Series F last year valued it at $18 billion after raising $1 billion, and it posted $870 million in 2024 revenue, with forecasts to double in 2025. This prospective funding would rank among the largest private rounds ever. Meta has already invested in Scale AI’s defense-focused “Defense Llama” project, built on its Llama models. The move aligns with Meta’s $68 billion infrastructure spend this year, much of it on Nvidia-powered data centers. Meta aims to weave generative AI into its ad platform by next year, leveraging labeled data to refine user targeting and content creation. So far, its ChatGPT-style rival, Meta.AI, boasts 1 billion monthly users. By deepening ties with Scale AI, Meta signals a strategy to own both the infrastructure and the data pipelines that power next-generation AI. investors.com