A year after Meta tapped Alexandr Wang to build a new AI model, Zuckerberg has to sell it

Mark Zuckerberg paid $14billion for Alexandr Wang's AI; Meta's own engineers still reach for Claude

Mark Zuckerberg hired Alexandr Wang for $14 billion, ditched open source and built Muse Spark to take on Claude and Gemini. Wall Street is down 18%. Developers are not returning calls. And 97% of revenue still comes from ads. Here is where Meta's great AI gamble actually stands.

A year after Meta tapped Alexandr Wang to build a new AI model, Zuckerberg has to sell it

Mark Zuckerberg's mega spending spree began a year ago, when he lured Alexandr Wang to oversee a new AI strategy. The results so far are underwhelming.

Meta hired Alexandr Wang to build AI. It's Zuckerberg's job to sell it

A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI, though it’s still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market. Wang’s big accomplishment was the delivery of the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta’s first jump into proprietary foundation models and away from a strict adherence to open …

Zuckerberg Bets $14 Billion on Alexandr Wang to Fix Meta AI. Now He Must Sell It

One year ago Mark Zuckerberg made one of the largest talent bets in tech history. He poured $14.3 billion into Scale AI and lured its 28-year-old founder Alexandr Wang to lead a new unit called Meta Superintelligence Labs. The goal was simple. Catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in frontier models. Deliver something that could power Meta’s apps, glasses and future products. Wang delivered Muse Spark in April. The model marked Meta’s first s…