Zuckerberg and Musk’s AI Failure Club Has Its Perks

When Mark Zuckerberg gets a bold new business idea, he likes to throw money at it. Last summer, he dropped $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, allowing him to poach its wunderkind founder Alexandr Wang to lead a new project to build artificial-intelligence systems that surpass human intelligence. He doled out $300 million pay packages to poach top scientists to build an all-star team called Superintelligence Labs.