NEW YORK – Facebook's parent meta platform is in talks to invest billions of dollars in AI, according to people familiar with the issue.
Funding could be worth more than US$10 billion (S$12.9 billion), some said.
According to people, the terms of the transaction have not been fixed and may change.
Representatives of the scale did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Meta declined to comment.
Scale AI, including Microsoft and Openai, has provided data labeling services to help businesses train machine learning models, and has become a key beneficiary of the generation AI boom.
The startup was last valued at around US$14 billion in 2024, a funding round that included support from Meta and Microsoft. Previously 2025Bloomberg reported that it is in talks for a tender offer that will value it at a scale of USD 25 billion.
This will be meta maximum External AI investments and rare moves for the company. The social media giant has previously relied on more open development strategies to improve AI technology, mainly in addition to in-house research. Meanwhile, the large tech peers have invested heavily. Microsoft has put more than USD 13 billion into Openai, while Amazon.com and Alphabet have injected billions into rival humanity.
Part of these companies' investments came through credits using computing power. Meta does not have a cloud business. It is also unclear what form Meta's investment will be.
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg won the top priority of the AI meta, saying in January the company would spend up to US$65 billion on related projects in 2025.
The company's push includes efforts to make llamas a global industry standard. Meta's AI Chatbot – Already available on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – is used 1 1 billion people per month.
Co-founded by CEO Alexandr Wang in 2016, Scale is growing rapidly. 2024 Bloomberg previously reported that it expects sales of more than US$2 billion will more than double in 2025.
Scale plays a key role in making AI data available to businesses. Because AI is as good as the data that goes into it, Scale can be organized using contract workers' scads and tagged images, text and other data for use in AI training.
Scale and meta share the interest in defense technology. Last week, Meta announced a new partnership with defense contractor Andurill Industries, developing products for the US military, including AI-powered helmets with virtual and augmented reality features. META also grants approval for US government agencies and defense contractors to use the AI model.
The company is already collaborating on a program called Defense Llamas, a version of Meta's large-scale language model aimed at military use.
Scale is increasingly working with the US government to develop AI for defensive purposes. In early 2025, the startup said it had won a contract with the Department of Defense to tackle AI agent technology. The company called the contract “an important milestone in military progress.” Bloomberg
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