Will Meta's $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off?

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By EditorDavidJun 14, 2026, 2:43 pm128 ptsTrending
"A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI," reports CNBC, "though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market." Wang's big accomplishment…

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