Star chase: Why Mark Zuckerberg is deploying billions to acquire hot AI talent like Alexandr Wang for Meta

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media megacorp has put down an eye-popping $14.3 billion as a transfer fee to sign on Alexandr Wang. By buying just a 49% stake in Wang’s Scale AI, Meta has plausible deniability. It can claim it’s not an acquisition—in the context of antitrust allegations against it.

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