Scale AI

Today, we’re announcing Scale has closed $1B of financing at a $13.8B valuation, led by existing investor Accel. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including autonomous vehicles, defense applications, and generative AI. With today’s funding, we’re moving into the next phase of our journey: accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). “Our vision is one of data abundance, where we have the means of production to continue scaling frontier LLMs many more orders of magnitude. We should not be data-constrained in getting to GPT-10.” - Alexandr Wang, CEO and founder of Scale AI. This new funding also enables Scale to build upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers, the U.S. Department of Defense, and collaboration with the White House to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. There’s a lot left to do. If this challenge excites you, join us: https://scale.com/careers Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gVBhaPZ5

Exploring Scale AI’s data-centric approach and more ⚡ #theCUBE reports on-site at this week’s #AWSSummit NYC In this exclusive, we’re joined by Vijay Karunamurthy, the Field CTO of Scale AI, to discuss the company’s data-centric approaches, collaboration with OpenAI, and three types of customers. “We took the data-centric approach to computer vision and partnered with some cutting-edge research labs like OpenAI. Today, we have three big buckets of customers. One is the OpenAIs of the world, the research labs that are building the next cutting-edge models. We're helping make those models more trustworthy across a range of new capabilities, like writing code or doing multimodal data, explained Karunamurthy. “The second is enterprises or private companies that are adopting gen AI. They have really unique needs because they have private data that needs to be kept in a VPC in Stockholm, and it can't leave the bounds there. If it does, there has to be really strict role-based access control around how that data is used, even if you have derived data from that data. So, we've built this gen AI platform around that,” he added. “The third big bucket of customers is the public sector. We have a range of agent-driven workflows; it's called Agent Donovan. It helps people with really mission-critical objectives accomplish their work by talking to that commander in the way that they expect to be talked to,” Karunamurthy concluded. 📰 More:  https://lnkd.in/gYmdfKi3 #EnterpriseTechNews #GenAI #theCUBE

Scale is ranked #5 on Silicon Valley Defense Group’s 2024 NATSEC100 report! The list recognizes leading national security-focused startups who are developing essential technology to the continued security of democracies around the globe. Join us on our mission to accelerate the development of AI applications 👉 https://scale.com/careers

“We need to be innovative in scaling that data wall. It relies on human innovation, algorithmic improvement, and data production.” Revisit Scale CEO Alexandr Wang’s conversation about with Jordan Schneider from the ChinaTalk Podcast and Newsletter about US-China AI competition. They also cover overcoming the data wall, a call to action for the US national security community, and deterring AI espionage responsibly. Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/gy3VURK6

I'm excited to announce our strategic partnership with Scale AI that will bring unprecedented model customization & evaluation capabilities for Amazon Bedrock to customers via AWS Marketplace. This will make it even easier for enterprises to deploy GenAI to their businesses. Through this collaboration, AWS customers can use the Scale AI platform to systematically evaluate their GenAI applications and use those insights to configure and fine-tune the underlying models for their purposes—all on Amazon Bedrock. That's not all. Our public sector customers can also leverage Scale Donovan, an AI platform purpose-built for government organizations with stringent federal security requirements. Donovan will empower agencies to uncover insights and speed mission-critical workflows through AI. A big thank you to Alexandr Wang and the Scale team for this partnership. We are really looking forward to our continued innovation together for customers. https://lnkd.in/g3WDVKrr

We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate enterprise and public sector generative AI adoption. Lack of trust and inability to customize GenAI models are the leading reasons many initiatives stall after proof of concept. As AWS’s first model customization and evaluation partner, we look forward to evaluating, customizing, and configuring GenAI models on Amazon Bedrock. Learn more about the partnership here: https://lnkd.in/gDJq5D3E

Today, we're thrilled to introduce the next evolution of Scale’s platform for mission critical AI: Agent Donovan. Agent Donovan goes beyond summarization and chat. It brings new capabilities around reasoning and tool use, most critically: 1️⃣ Kick off an agentic workflow that connects your data sources, identifies critical information, runs code, corrects code execution errors, and validates sources 2️⃣ Leverage the skillsets of experts across various domains to execute workflows such as generating an ISR request for further intel by sharing insights with a report generation template Donovan is ready to be deployed in secure classified environments for your team. Imagine what you can do with your own data today. Get Donovan for your team: https://lnkd.in/g-MzYN7g

Last week Gen. James Rainey, Army Futures Command, commanding general participated in Scale AI’s Government AI Summit.    Rainey reflected on ways the military is adapting to the quickly evolving opportunities and obstacles posed by AI in modern warfare. https://lnkd.in/gh5fuYpJ   #ForgeTheFuture | #TomorrowIsWorthProtecting 

“We are often now being asked to power sophisticated data sets about how the world around us works. That’s important if we’re going to get robots to interact with the world around us. But the data is still lacking. Even if you believe we’re still far off from AGI, there will be advancements in the next few years with embodied agents able to use robotic arms or hands around a physical environment.” The Wall Street Journal sat down with Scale Field CTO, Vijay Karunamurthy to discuss Scale’s AI strategy and how we plan to deploy our newly raised capital in the AI arms race. He also discusses the role of Scale’s data foundry to advance GenAI and AGI. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gbquu_pc 

Scale hosted its annual Gov AI Summit this week at The REACH at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. The Summit brought together leaders within the government and commercial organizations including GEN James Rainey, Andy Makridis, and Helena Fu. Attendees discussed key opportunities and challenges of the AI revolution within the United States and ally governments including integrating AI within federal workflows, AI readiness and data preparation, and model evaluation for the DoD.