Meta just invested more than $14 billion into data labeling start-up Scale AI, acquiring a 49% equity stake in the process.

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars over the next several years to build a series of massive artificial intelligence (AI) data centers — each with power demands measured in gigawatts — as part of the company's accelerating push toward developing superintelligence.

Top AI startup deals in 2025? Meta paid $14.3 billion for a stake in Scale AI, and OpenAI raked in a $40 billion round. Here's what to know about AI investing.

"We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, Meta's social media platform. "We're building multiple more titan clusters

Meta deepens its AI wearables push with a $3.51 billion stake in EssilorLuxottica, aiming to expand smart glasses production and strengthen its superintelligence team.

Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI, has stepped down to lead a new superintelligence division at Meta. According to newly appointed CEO Jason Droege, fewer than a dozen of Scale’s 1,500 employees have followed Wang to his new post.

As the AI arms race intensifies, Meta’s latest move signals a strategic emphasis on speech and voice interfaces.

The integration of Play AI into Meta is expected to strengthen the tech giant’s capabilities in voice technology, as well as AI-driven solutions. This comes at a time when Meta is on an acquisition and hiring spree in an effort to strengthen its AI-related developments.