Scale AI, Inc., development of AI applications, San Francisco, California, USA

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Scale AI on Wikipedia

Interim CEO - Jason Droege

Co-founder - Alexandr Wang

Co-founder - Lucy Guo

 

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Article "Scale AI Nears $13 Billion Valuation in Accel-Led Round"

by Kate Clark and Cory Weinberg
March 28, 2024

 

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Article "Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B"

by Paul Sawers
May 21, 2024

 

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Article "Why a $14 Billion Startup Is Now Hiring PhD’s to Train AI From Their Living Rooms"

by Cory Weinberg
June 25, 2024

 

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Article "Scale AI’s Sales Nearly Quadrupled in First Half"

by Cory Weinberg
September 24, 2024

 

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Article "AI agents are coming to the military. VCs love it, but researchers are a bit wary."

by Julia Hornstein
March 8, 2025

 

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Article "Scale AI Missed Revenue and Profit Targets Ahead of Share Sale"
Startup is close to finalizing a sale of stock by early employees that values it around $25 billion

by Cory Weinberg and Kalley Huang
April 25, 2025

 

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Article "Meta to Pay Nearly $15 Billion for Scale AI Stake and Startup’s 28-Year-Old CEO"
Unusual structure will send the cash to Scale’s investors and boost Meta’s lagging artificial intelligence efforts

by Cory Weinberg
June 10, 2025

 

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Article "Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money"
Meta walked a dealmaking tightrope among investors, regulators and employees to snag Wang and Scale AI stake.

by Cory Weinberg
June 16, 2025

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Article "Scale AI locked down Big Tech client documents after BI revealed security holes"

by Hugh Langley and Charles Rollet
June 26, 2025

 

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Article "Scale AI to Cut 14% of Staff Following Meta Investment"
The AI data-labeling company is laying off 200 full-time employees and will stop working with 500 contractors.

by Rachel Metz and Shirin Ghaffary
July 16, 2025

 

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Article "Inside Scale AI after Meta"
Five months after Meta's $14 billion deal, the startup has lost some of its gleam, with workers sniping about pay, and rivals coming for its clientele.

by Charles Rollet and Ben Bergman
December 10, 2025

 

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Why enterprise AI is harder than everyone thinks

Feb 8, 2026

Jason Droege, the new CEO of Scale AI, breaks down the company's rare success story: becoming stronger after founder Alexandr Wang left for Meta in a $14.5 billion deal. Scale hit a billion-dollar run rate in Q4 while other AI startups struggle with reverse acquihires.Key topics:

• The Meta deal mechanics: why only 10-20 people left vs. 1,000+ stayed
• Scale's two businesses: frontier data for models + high-touch enterprise deployment
• The contributor moat: 500K experts, 11% with PhDs, validating astrophysics knowledge at scale
• Why "just throw AI at it" fails
• The Ivy League professor who made $50K in a week labeling for Humanity's Last Exam

Interview conducted by Sources founder and ACCESS co-host Alex Heath on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.