Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI
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Zuckerberg is bringing Meta to the forefront of the AGI push with this massive-scale Scale AI investment and a superintelligence team, positioning his company to surpass OpenAI and Google. By personally recruiting top talent and leveraging Scale's data expertise, Meta will be able to integrate advanced AI into its products, setting a bold path toward AI-human parity.
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There is a 50% chance that the first weakly general AI system will be devised, tested, and publicly announced by Jan. 10, 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.