The AI startup’s biggest clients, which include OpenAI and Google, won’t likely want to trust their data to a company almost half owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire.
The startup’s clients, which include some of the biggest AI labs, may not want to trust their data to a company almost half owned by Mark Zuckerberg ’s tech empire. Scale denied OpenAI has pulled back spending.shock $15 billion deal to sell a 49% stake to Meta , with its CEO Alexandr Wang leaving the startup he founded to lead a new AI lab at the tech giant, has raised the specter that the startup’s $14 billion-valued data labeling business could lose clients to competitors.
The surprise deal, which would value the company at $28 billion, left people inside Scale scrambling and confused, the former employee said. Some staff are concerned over what visibility Meta might have into past projects, even though most contracts with the company stipulate data be deleted after projects are completed, the person said.
Access to high quality human data is crucial for training powerful AI models, so much so that data has been considered a moat for AI juggernauts like OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race. Scale AI, which bookedin revenue in 2024, captured the data labelling market early by supplying troves of human-labelled data to companies like Cohere, OpenAI and Microsoft. But Meta owning almost half of Scale would change that equation.
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