Meta has paid $14.3 billionen for 49% stake in Scale AI, which prepares training data for AI systems, and recruited its founder, Alexander Wang, to work on Meta’s own AI program. Scale AI will continue as an independent vendor, now valued at $29 billion. Scale’s clients include nearly all genAI vendors.
A new report shows six Apps in the Apple App Store and four on the Google Play Store have undisclosed ties to China.
The Trade Desk now has a Connector App, the first it has natively built on an independent data platform — in this case, Snowflake. It will allow brands to share SKU-level sales and conversion data with The Trade Desk clients “in a way that makes sure that data stays with the advertiser and respects user agreements and privacy,” said CEO Jeff Green. Along similar lines, The Trade Desk also recently announced a deal to give advertisers access to product-level data from Instacart and Ocado.
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.