Meta Weighed Acquiring Perplexity Before Backing Scale AI Sources familiar with the matter say Meta’s interest in Perplexity went beyond a passive investment The company considered an outright acquisition, in part to secure talent and accelerate its roadmap in AI-powered search While exact terms of the proposed acquisition were never finalized, the conversations did not lead to a deal
Meta Explored Acquiring Perplexity Before Scale AI Tie‑Up Shortly after the collapse of the Perplexity talks, Meta confirmed a fourteen-point-three billion dollar investment in Scale AI That deal gave Meta a 49% stake in the data‑labeling startup Scale AI performs AI model training under the guise of cleaning and annotating huge amounts of data
Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing in Scale Meta Platforms Inc held discussions with artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI
Meta eyed Perplexity before $14B Scale AI deal Meta tried to recruit Perplexity's CEO The talks with Perplexity came before Meta's $14 3 billion investment in Scale AI, which gave it a 49% stake in the data-labeling start-up