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Scale AI lays off 14% of employees, largely in information labeling enterprise

Knowledge labelling startup Scale AI is shedding 200 staff, roughly 14% of its employees, and reducing ties with 500 of its international contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come only a month after Meta employed Scale AI’s CEO in a $14.3 billion deal.

In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, interim CEO Jason Droege advised employees that Scale AI had too rapidly scaled its core information labeling enterprise — through which the startup equipped AI labs with labeled, structured information to coach AI fashions. Droege stated within the memo that Scale AI would employees up round its enterprise and authorities gross sales models.

Like different AI startups which have been reverse acquihired, corresponding to Inflection, it appears that evidently Scale AI now has to pivot from the enterprise that put it on the map. In mild of Meta’s funding, a number of of Scale AI’s largest information prospects minimize ties with the startup.

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