The early victors within the AI gold rush are promoting the picks and shovels wanted to develop and apply synthetic intelligence. Simply check out data-labeling startup Scale AI — and its lengthy and various record of shoppers and traders.
The San Francisco-based startup, based in 2016, developed software program that labels picture, textual content, voice and video information utilized by corporations to coach machine studying fashions. Scale AI obtained its begin supplying corporations like Nuro and Zoox with the labeled information wanted to coach machine studying fashions for autonomous automobiles. The enterprise quickly expanded into authorities, e-commerce, enterprise automation and robotics corporations. In the present day, Scale AI’s buyer record consists of GM, OpenAI, Microsoft and the U.S. Division of Protection.
It’s attracted traders too. The corporate lately raised $1 billion in a Sequence F spherical with a $13.8 billion valuation from early backer Accel in addition to institutional and company traders corresponding to Amazon and Meta.
The upshot: Scale AI, and its CEO and co-founder Alexandr Wang, sit on the heart of the AI growth. We’re excited to announce that Wang, who began Scale AI as a scholar at MIT on the age of 19, is coming to Disrupt 2024 on October 28-30 in San Francisco.
Throughout our fireplace interview with Wang, we’ll transfer previous the hype and dig into the enterprise of AI, the place the business is headed and the way Scale will proceed to evolve. Plus, tons extra!
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