David Friedberg

But he's also offering $100 million a year in annual comp.

He's clearly cut out tens of billions of dollars for this effort, not dissimilar to when he did his VR efforts that didn't work out so well.

Here's a 30-second clip of Sam Altman talking about this on his brother, Jax.

Meta just also vested over $14 billion, I'm using invested in quotes, in scale AI for a 49% stake.

And this probably is better described as a shadow acquihire to get around antitrust scrutiny.

You remember Microsoft did that with inflection AI back in the day, Google did it with character AI, and Amazon did it with the depth AI.

I'm not sure if this is necessary anymore, since Lena Kahn's no longer in the position.

scale ceo alexander wang and others will be joining meta to work on a new super intelligence team they're saying that scale is going to remain an independent company and get a new ceo i'm not sure if that's going to happen

And if you don't know, Scale does data labeling.

They get experts to help train language models.

Two of their biggest customers are OpenAI and Google, and they both canceled their contracts.

So Zuck is taking that chess piece off the board so he can get all that data into his LLMs.

He's also reportedly in talks to hire former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to work on AI.

They have a incubator investment fund for AI.

Daniel Gross had a really cool startup incubator called Pioneer Labs.

I had him on This Week in Startups a couple of years ago.

Really smart cat.

Meta has 70 billion in cash.

Thomas Lafont, when you see Zuck doing this, what's your take, not only on what Zuck's doing, but how big of an opportunity is this, you know, in terms of the prize of having the best large language model?

What is he going for here?