Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts.

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Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.

With Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang headed to Meta for high-profile role in artificial intelligence, the startup is promoting its strategy head.

Meta is preparing to drop a staggering $15 billion (A$23.09bn) on a stake in AI startup Scale AI, in a bold new play to push beyond current artificial intelligence capabilities and reach so-called “superintelligence”.

The Meta CEO is said to be hiring about 50 members for a new team working on AI-driven projects including artificial general intelligence.