Ultimate MLE

3 Puzzles Behind Meta x Scale AI deal


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So... Meta just dropped **$14.3 billion** on Scale AI. That’s not a typo. Billion—with a “B”. And at first glance, this deal smells like a fever dream cooked up by an overcaffeinated VC.


I mean—why would Meta:


1. Pay more than 4x what OpenAI paid for Windsurf?

2. Not even get a seat at the table—literally no voting rights?

3. Hand the keys to its *superintelligence unit* to a guy who dropped out of MIT and has never trained a model himself?


🧠 Buckle up. This is more than just another “Big Tech does something weird” story. There are layers. And when you peel them back, what looks like a tech bro fever dream starts to make a weird kind of sense.

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Ultimate MLEBy Tyrone Zhang