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Meta's $14.3B Scale AI Partnership Shows Early Strain Amid Quality Concerns and Executive Departures

Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI is showing signs of strain just two months after the partnership began, with key executives departing and Meta's TBD Labs preferring competitors like Surge AI and Mercor for data quality reasons. The partnership was part of Meta's aggressive push to catch up with OpenAI and Google after disappointing Llama 4 results, but internal chaos and talent retention issues are emerging at Meta's AI division.