After Meta tapped Alexandr Wang to build new AI model, Zuckerberg has 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 source, or open weight as it's more commonly called in AI. The group Wang leads — Meta Superintelligence Labs — was established to give the company some sizzle in the hottest corner of the tech industry. Now that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has his new model, it's on him to make it a financial success.

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