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Morin: Data labeling has literally nothing to do with building AGI
“I mean, I get that it's like data quality in the age of LLMs is very valuable. But again, this has nothing to do with building AGI, like literally nothing.”
Lessin: Meta is taking a $14.8B, 49% stake in Scale AI
“The information the next day had all the details of the 14.8 billion, the 49% ownership stake, and that Alexander Wang, the CEO of Scale.ai, Is now running a meta super intelligence lab.”
Sam Lessin: The best AI data strategy is intentionally showing wrong information
“I actually think the best strategy is just tell people wrong things. So they feel the need to correct you, right? So like, there's a whole neural path We're like, people will spend infinite attention on that very happily, right? If there's just an opportunity,…”
Lessin: Scale AI competitors are already generating over $1 billion in revenue
“There are other people who do things that are very similar that do more than a billion.”
Morin: Meta structured its 49% Scale AI stake to avoid FTC scrutiny
“So technically an avoidance of the FTC stake.”
Lessin: Alexandr Wang landed a huge early Facebook deal via BD
“And so, he got an enormous Facebook, like, content moderation-y, label-y type deal super early that no one thought he was gonna get just by working the BD.”
Lessin passed on Scale AI because he feared business development challenges
“Now, interestingly, the reason I didn't invest then, which was clearly a mistake, I clearly shouldn't, It's like, you're like, there's a lot of people doing this, and I was really worried that the number one problem was business development.”