The early winners of the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data labeling startup Scale AI and its long and diverse list of customers and investors.
The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice and video data used by companies to train machine learning models. Scale AI began by supplying companies like Nuro and Zoox with the labeled data needed to train machine learning models for autonomous vehicles. The business soon expanded into government, e-commerce, business automation and robotics companies. Today, Scale AI’s client list includes GM, OpenAI, Microsoft, and the US Department of Defense.
It has also attracted investors. The company recently raised a billion dollars in a Series F round with a valuation of $13.8 billion from initial backer Accel, as well as institutional and corporate investors such as Amazon and Meta.
The result: Scale AI and its CEO and co-founder, Alexandr Wang, are at the center of the AI boom. We are pleased to announce that Wang, who started Scale AI as a student at MIT at the age of 19, will reach Disrupt 2024 from October 28 to 30 in San Francisco.
During our sit-down interview with Wang, we’ll cut through the hype and delve deeper into the business of AI, where the industry is headed, and how Scale will continue to evolve. Plus, much more!
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