Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

The social media giant is reportedly making a near-$15 billion bet on Scale, which specializes in RLHF-based data labeling and model evaluation services. Zuck is also pushing hard into the development of superintelligent systems that can outsmart humans.

Now, Meta is slated to launch a research lab devoted to building superintelligent AI, according to a report from The New York Times. Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale AI, a startup that helps companies build AI apps,