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Scale AI, a data-labeling startup, is making significant changes by letting go of 200 employees and severing connections with 500 global contractors. This move comes shortly after Meta acquired Scale AI’s CEO in a massive $14.3 billion deal.
Scaling Back for Future Growth
Interim CEO Jason Droege explained in a memo obtained by Bloomberg that Scale AI had expanded its core data-labeling business too rapidly. This business involved providing AI labs with labeled, structured data to train AI models. Droege announced plans to focus on staffing up around the enterprise and government sales units to ensure future success.
Pivoting After Meta’s Investment
As with other AI startups that have been acquired in a reverse acqui-hire, like Inflection, Scale AI is now facing the need to pivot from its initial business strategy. Following Meta’s investment, many of Scale AI’s major data customers have decided to end their partnerships with the startup.
