Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing in Scale (Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc held discussions with artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar
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 Tried to Acquire Perplexity Before $14. 3 billion Scale . . . Meta’s recent $14 3 billion investment in scale AI shows this strategy very clearly The investment gives Meta a 49% stake in the company and brings scale founder, Alexander Wang, and a few of his colleagues into Meta’s AI division Multiple Firms were Targeted by Meta AI Perplexity was not Meta’s only target this year
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
Meta Considered Perplexity Acquisition Before Backing Scale AI Meta Platforms Inc (META) engaged in unsuccessful acquisition talks with Perplexity AI Inc , valued at $14 billion, before investing $14 3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI CEO Mark Zuckerberg