AI Magazine September 2026 Issue 50 | Page 44

SCALE AI
TOP 10 – DATA LABELLING TOOLS

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SCALE AI

CEO: JASON DROEGE HEADQUARTERS: CALIFORNIA, US FOUNDED: 2016
Scale AI is a data infrastructure company that provides high-quality training data, evaluation frameworks and software tools required to build, fine-tune and deploy frontier AI models. The company says that 90 % of the world’ s leading generative AI model builders are powered by Scale. It is powered by the Scale Data Engine, which combines expert human-inthe-loop feedback, RLHF, automated red-teaming and model evaluation to turn raw enterprise data into productionready intelligence. Its products span Scale data engine, Scale GenAI Platform and Scale Donovan( which offers specialised AI Agents for mission-critical workflows); it offers solutions across enterprise, insurance and the global public sector. According to CNBC, both Amazon and Meta backed Scale AI in a US $ 1bn funding deal that valued the firm at US $ 14bn in 2024. The firm is now valued at US $ 29bn.
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