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Scale AI
Scale AI is a data-labeling and AI training-data company whose human-annotation and data-generation services have been used by AI labs to prepare data for training and evaluating models.
Scale AI is a data-labeling and AI training-data company whose human-annotation and data-generation services have been used by AI labs to prepare data for training and evaluating models.
Meta invested about $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI in June 2025 and hired its CEO to help lead Meta's superintelligence AI effort, an unusual structure that also led some competing AI labs to scale back their use of Scale AI's services.
Scale AI makes money by charging AI companies for data-labeling, human-feedback (RLHF) and data-generation services used to train and evaluate AI models.
United States (San Francisco, California)
AI infrastructure software. The tools developers use to build, train, deploy and manage AI systems: the software layer that sits between raw computing power and a finished AI product.
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Connections (3)
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Dated or announced (3)
Source: 2025-06-18 · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Discontinuing as of June 2025, per reporting that includes OpenAI's own characterization of its reduced reliance
Limits: Does not establish original contract value, start date of the OpenAI-Scale AI relationship, or the exact date data-labeling work fully ended.
OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta ↗Source: 2025-06-14 · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported as ending around June 2025; not confirmed on the record by Google
Limits: Based on Reuters sourcing that Google declined to confirm; the $200 million figure is a reported planned spend, not a confirmed paid amount, and the relationship's start date is not established.
Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI ↗Source: 2025-06-13 · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Completed
Limits: Meta confirmed the investment and partnership publicly but did not itself disclose the exact dollar amount or stake percentage; those figures come from reporting citing sources familiar with the deal, and the investment does not establish that Meta controls Scale AI's operations.
Scale AI confirms 'significant' investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving ↗Scale AI confirms 'significant' investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving ↗
Reviewed
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