If true this is the deal of the century. Apple pay 1/14th of a Wang per year for a top tier model whereas Meta burn multiple Wangs a year in salary alone and get garbage.

For those equally confused: Meta bought 49% of Scale AI for 14.3 billion, purportedly to largely bring Alexandr Wang on board.

When is this not true?

It is cheaper to buy GPUs than to develop the capabilities to develop GPUs.