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Alexandr Wang
Co-founder (former CEO)
Previously Engineer at Quora
MIT (dropped out)
Scale AI provides data labeling, model evaluation, and AI infrastructure services to develop and improve AI applications for enterprises, governments, and frontier AI labs. The company also operates Scale Labs, a research division focused on AI safety, evaluation, alignment, and enterprise deployment.
Scale AI provides data labeling, model evaluation, and AI infrastructure services to develop and improve AI applications for enterprises, governments, and frontier AI labs. The company also operates Scale Labs, a research division focused on AI safety, evaluation, alignment, and enterprise deployment.
Scale was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo through Y Combinator after they met working together at Quora. Wang, then 19, dropped out of MIT after his freshman year to build the company.
Axios interview with Scale AI CEO Jason Droege on pushing AI reliability and life after the Meta deal.
Scale launched Scale Labs, an expanded research division building on its SEAL lab and focused on model capabilities, post-training evaluation, enterprise deployment, and risk oversight.
Major AI lab customers including Google, OpenAI, and xAI paused or wound down work with Scale following Meta's investment, citing data confidentiality and competitive concerns.
Scale AI cut roughly 200 employees (14% of its ~1,400-person workforce) and 500 contractors, with interim CEO Droege citing over-scaling in the data-labeling business as key AI lab customers paused work.
Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left Scale AI to lead Meta's superintelligence efforts as part of the Meta deal, while remaining on the Scale board.
Meta finalized a $14.3B investment in Scale AI valuing it at ~$29B, taking a 49% non-voting stake — Meta's largest investment since the WhatsApp acquisition.
Meta Platforms invested more than $14 billion to acquire a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI at a $29 billion valuation; founder Alexandr Wang joins Meta.
Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege was promoted to CEO after Alexandr Wang left to head AI efforts at Meta.
Scale AI announced partnership with Microsoft to develop AI-powered solutions for U.S. Indo-Pacific and European Command under the Defense Innovation Unit's Thunderforge program.
Scale AI reached a multimillion-dollar deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop the Thunderforge project, using AI to plan and execute movements of ships, planes, and other assets.
Co-founder (former CEO)
Previously Engineer at Quora
MIT (dropped out)
Co-founder (former)
Previously Product Designer at Quora
Co-founder; former CEO (now Director); Chief AI Officer at Meta
Previously Tech Lead at Quora
MIT (dropout)
Co-founded Scale AI in 2016 at age 19 after dropping out of MIT. Served as CEO until June 2025, when Meta invested $14.3B and recruited him to lead its superintelligence efforts. Remains on the Scale board.
Co-founder (departed 2018)
Previously Product Designer at Snapchat
Carnegie Mellon (dropout); Thiel Fellow
Co-founded Scale AI in 2016 with Alexandr Wang. A Thiel Fellowship recipient and Carnegie Mellon dropout who previously worked at Facebook, Quora, and Snapchat. Left Scale AI in 2018 due to differences in vision and later founded creator platform Passes.
$16B raised total