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I've been all for it, look at my comment elsewhere in this thread. For me this is a huge mistake of a transaction that's neither accretive financially nor talent-wise.

This isn't the Instagram or Whatsapp transaction. Scale's been exclusively in the data labeling space.

Let's put this into perspective. OpenAI bought Jony Ive for about $5bln. Meta spent 3x that on Wang.

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I'm not familiar with Scale, but data labeling can make or break a ML model. So if Scale is good at this, the $14B investment will pay itself off in no time.

There was quite loud reporting earlier this (or last?) year that Scale's data was so poor that it led to a great deal of setbacks, scrambling, and friction between the two companies. That reporting was at the top of my mind when I read this news, so I was even more baffled.

Imagine being the people at Meta who've had to deal with Scale now seeing Mark buy Scale's CEO for $14bln.

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