{"id":79202,"date":"2025-06-14T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/metas-big-ai-bet-and-our-not-so-hot-take-on-fintech-ipos\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:44:09","slug":"metas-big-ai-bet-and-our-not-so-hot-take-on-fintech-ipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/metas-big-ai-bet-and-our-not-so-hot-take-on-fintech-ipos\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s big AI bet and our not-so-hot-take on fintech IPOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta just made a $14.3 billion bet on data-labeling company Scale AI (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/13\/scale-ai-confirms-significant-investment-from-meta-says-ceo-alexandr-wang-is-leaving\/<\/a>) , but it\u2019s not a traditional takeover: Meta\u2019s taking a 49% stake in the company and adding Scale\u2019s co-founder Alexandr Wang to its team.<\/p>\n

Today on Equity, we break down what this means for Meta\u2019s AI ambitions and revisit Wang\u2019s early AI predictions.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full episode to hear more highlights from the week, including:<\/p>\n

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How Chime\u2019s IPO (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/12\/chime-almost-died-in-2016-turned-down-by-100-vcs-today-it-ipod-at-14-5b\/<\/a>) priced above expectations at $27 per share and jumped in early trading, and Anthony\u2019s not-so-hot takes on what this signals for the tech IPO market<\/p>\n

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Why Y Combinator\u2019s Demo Day (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/13\/11-startups-from-yc-demo-day-that-investors-are-talking-about\/<\/a>) was packed with \u201cagentic\u201d AI startups building autonomous software, and how a recent chat with Fiverr\u2019s CEO (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcast\/fiverrs-ceo-on-why-ai-is-coming-for-everyone\/<\/a>) sheds light on AI-driven task automation in the gig economy<\/p>\n

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How Jony Ive\u2019s LoveFrom spent 18 months (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/06\/jony-ives-lovefrom-helped-design-rivians-first-electric-bike\/<\/a>) quietly collaborating with Rivian on their first electric bike, a spinout product confirmed to have a bike-like form factor<\/p>\n

Equity will be back next week, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We\u2019d also like to thank TechCrunch\u2019s audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we’ll talk to you next time.<\/p>\n

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Meta just made a $14.3 billion bet on data-labeling company Scale AI (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/13\/scale-ai-confirms-significant-investment-from-meta-says-ceo-alexandr-wang-is-leaving\/) , but it\u2019s not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}