The social media giant is getting CEO Alexandr Wang in a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, as it plans to build out ‘superintelligent’ systems.

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

It’s easily the most expensive hire of all time, dwarfing the billions that Google spent to rehire Noam Shazeer and his core team from Character.AI (a deal Zuckerberg passed on). “Opportunities of this magnitude often come at a cost,” Wang wrote in his note to employees this week. “In this instance, that cost is my departure.”

The Meta AI app launched in April, and users are inadvertently sharing embarrassing, private questions to the Discover feed because of poor design choices by Meta that have still not been fixed.

Zuckerberg is tapping a rising AI power broker in a high-stakes move to revive Meta’s generative AI ambitions after its recent Llama 4 flop and ongoing AI talent departures.